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World's Biggest Building Due at Cape iflfeamaa POUNDBD 1651 113th YEAR 4 SECTIONS 32 PAGES The Oregon. Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, September 23, 1963 PRICE 5c No. 180 Co or 2 Ferries Help Trio To Escape Don IPirftDainid Seattftle. aeinn)s Swimming, Football Merge at Summers End iJl r-ki i i nrrrT-r-nr -ii iiiiii iTj--pnrinipin-r-jinT-ir--pn-nji ww 99 'T injj t111 mi" 1 1 far rrAz -1 It- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. This artist's sketch shows how the proposed 52-story vertical assembly laboratory for assembling Saturn lunar rockets will look.

The laboratory will have 50 per cent more cubic feet of space than the Pentagon. (AP) (Story on page 2.) She did! Womaim EC ii I fled), Crash 6 Hurt in 99 Statesman News Service SHEDD A Shedd woman was fatally injured and six persons were hurt in a grinding car-pickup truck crash Sunday afternoon on Highway 99E south of this Linn County community. Pronounced dead on arrival at an Albany hospital was Mrs. Avota Endicott, 47, Shedd Rt. 1, Box 55.

Her husband, Floyd Merle Endicott, 50, the driver of the car; their two for. Qj. rfliJv tt OtP S33HB TKDQUg Memorial for 4 Birmingham Negro Children By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Negroes and whites marched in the rain in Portland, Seattle and Tacoma Sunday in memory of the six children killed in racial violence in Birmingham, last week. In Portland some 600 persons most of them high school and college youth paraded through Portland Sunday in a a orderly civil rights demonstration. They assembled at the Vancouver Baptist Church at noon and then marched across Broadway Bridge and down S.W.

Broadway to the Federal Courthouse. On the way they chanted "Freedom Now," and sang. The parade was sponsored Portland Friends of the Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee and the Youth Council of the National Association for tha Advancement of Colored People. It was staged as a memorial to the four Negro children who died in Birmingham, church bombing. Carried Sign Many of the paraders carried signs and placards asking federal protection for Negroes in a South.

Speakers at the courthouse steps included the Rev. Eugene Boyd Jr. and the Rev. Paul Wright of the First Presbyterian Church. In Tacoma, the memorial was coupled with a demonstration favoring passage of a proposed ordinance providing penalties for racial discrimination in the sale or lease of housing.

In Seattle, there was also an auction of art works donated by local artists as a benefit for victims of last Sunday's Birmingham church bombing. Raise $13,000 More than $13,000 was raised for the injured from the sale of more than 280 art objects. A crowd estimated at between 5,000 and 6,000 turned out. Reginald Alleyne. chairman of the Seattle unit of the Congress of Racial Equality, said about 500 persons assembled at the base of the Space Needle and marched to an exhibition hall on the Seattle Center grounds.

A brief prayer service was held in a sheltered area outside the hall. The Tacoma demonstration was decided upon Saturday night after leaders of the city's Negro community said they had learned of a meeting the night before between eight of the nine city council members and a group of local businessmen. They said the businessmen urged the council members to vote against the open housing ordinance, which may come up for a vote Tuesday night. Ordinance Urged About 250 person heard talks by Tacoma ministers, white and Negro, at St. Johns Baptist Church, urging passage of the ordinance.

Then 114 persons marched, and others rode in cars, a mile and a quarter to the County-City Building, under police escort. In the foyer of the building, the Rev. Ernest Brazill of Shiloh Baptist Church gave a prayer for the Birmingham bomb victims and "for those who committed this atrocious crime in the belief that they were doing their city a service." "We pray that God will touch their hearts and the hearts of the Tacoma mayor and councilmcn when they vote on the open housing ordinance," the Rev. Mr. Brazill said.

It is football season and the first day of autumn today but this didn't stop area youngsters from swimming and playing a little "water pigskin" at Leslie Pool in Salem Sunday. It was a little chilly on the outside but the water was fine, 87 degrees. Douglas Wirth (Center) tries out his throwing arm. City pools are open through Saturday, the latest pools have been open. (Statesman Photo) The Legislative Fiscal Office has released a report which is, on the whole, critical of administration in the Industrial Accident Commission.

It was initiated, we presume, as a sequence to the discharge of two members of the commission by Gov. Hatfield last June. The report goes into the plan of administrative reorganization which precipitated friction among the commissioners and within the department. It makes no attempt to "retry" the members discharged, but does review developments that attended the attempt to institute new procedures, which was abandoned when new members were appointed. The report, which was prepared by analyst Creighton Pen well, is critical of the decision to return to the old structure, and says there is need for a realignment of the commission's organization.

It raises the question "if the commission is prpperly organized to efficiently carry out its functions." This is the first official review of the conflict which came to a head last spring, other than a hearing called by Gov. Hatfield preliminary to removal (Continued on Editorial Page, 6.) Liz to Marry? Burton Denies He Said That MEXICO CITY (AP) Richard Burton Sunday night denied a statement attributed to him and Elizabeth Taylor at a Toronto stopover that they plan to marry as soon as legal tangles are cleared away. "I made no such statement," Burton snapped shortly after he and Miss Taylor arrived in Mexico from Britain Via Canada. Reporters had no time to question them about a statement attributed to Miss Taylor that. "I'm even learning to cook and I'm doing an awful lot of knitting." She and Burton had been interviewed during their stopover in Toronto by Frank Morriss, a Globe and Mail reporter.

Semi Retirement Morriss also quoted Miss Taylor as saying she was in semi-retirement and would stay in Mexico while Burton is makrng a new movie. Miss Taylor is estranged from singer Eddie Fisher. Burton separated from former actress Sybil Williams. None of the four has started divorce proceedings. Last June the two were quoted as saying they planned to seek divorces and marry each othr.

During their earlier stopover in Montreal they evaded questions about the possibility of their getting Mexican divorces. In Toronto both complained about reporters who met their plane in Montreal. "They were as bad as the ones Rome," said Burton. Nearly Lost Waiting for the change of aircraft in Montreal, Liz was all but lost in a crowd of newsmen, photographers and movie fans. While Burton escorted her daughter.

Lisa, into the car. Miss Taylor, looking windswept and worried, wandered about trying to find her way. "Where am I supposed to I'm looking for my daughter," said Miss Taylor. "Where is Lisa, where's my husband?" Airline officials came to the rescue by escorting Miss Taylor through the crowd and into the limousine. Listed as Mrs.

Hayman She was listed on the passenger roll as "Mrs. Hayman" traveling with "Mr. Hayman and child." The trio spent 45 minutes between jets and took off for Mexico City. Were they planning to pick up a pair of Mexican divorces? Miss Taylor said, "I wouldn't tell you if I knew." "Who knows? I don't." said Burton. Miss Taylor won't be Burton's leading lady in the new film.

He is costarring with Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr in the screen version of a Tennessee Williams play. Lisa is the late Mike Todd's daughter. AMERICAN LEAGUE At New York 4, Kansas City 3 At Boston 1, Minnesota At Detroit 2, Chicago 3 At Baltimore 6-3, Washington 3-4 At Cleveland 5-2, Los Angeles 3-1 (2nd game 11 innings) NATIONAL LEAGUE At Los Angeles Pittsburgh 4 At San Francisco 13. New York 4 At Chicago 7, Milwaukee 3 At Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 2 At Houston 2, Philadelphia 1 rooms in three srrfall Vietnamese houses at the rear of the theater and injured a Vietnamese female servant.

The theater was rocked by the blast and two doors were blown in, causing near panic among children sitting up front. Two older American children stopped a rush to the theater exits by grabbing several children who started to run, Americans who were present said. The government announced that three suspects have been LUEBECK, Germany (AP) An East German family of three headed for West Germany in a kayak and finally made it aboard a West German freighter, with the help of two ferry boats which blocked off East German machine gunners. Hundreds of passengers aboard the ferry boats cheered as (he three were snatched from the grasp of Communist police. Martin Helms.

30, an athlotic instructor from Wismar, his wife, Bettina, 29. and their 5-year-old daughter, Kirsten. plan to begin life anew in the West. Almost Lost Race The exhausted and frightened trio arrived here Saturday night aboard the West German freighter Fredenhagen, which hauled them on board as a pursuing East German police boat was about to blast their fragile kayak out of choppy Baltic waters. West German refugee officials said the Helms family started from Wismar in the kayak, which was equipped with an outboard motor.

Around 5 p.m. they spotted the Fredenhagen steaming their way and an East German police boat in pursuit of them in a shipping channel which straddles the boundary line between East and West Germany. Not Past Enough The skipper of the Fredenhagen, Capt. Siegfried Horn, 34, was quoted as saying he knew his vessel could not possibly reach the Helms before the high-powered police boat got to them. But just as crew members of the pursuing police boat were training machine guns on the Zephyr, the Danish ferry Gedser, heading for Gedser, Denmark, came into view.

The Gedser's captain, H. Juste-sen, swung his vessel between the patrol boat and the Zephyr. The Swedish ferry Niels Hol-gersson, heading for Travemu-ende, West Germany, maneuvered into position to block the police boat. Ban-the-Bomb Group Loses 5 Key Members LONDON (AP) The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is losing five of its most influential council members. They are said to object to infiltration by left-wing groups campaigning for political objectives far removed from the nuclear bomb issue.

The departing members are Mi- I chael Foot and Anthony Green-i wood, Laborite members of Par- i liament: Jacquetta Hawkes. wife of novelist J. B. Priestley; Dr. Antonia Pirie, Oxford University biochemist, and Arthur Goss, a prominent pacifist.

All five have refused to accept nomination for re-election to the I campaign's national council at the I annual conference Oct. 22. Said Miss Hawkes, herself an author: "Accepting any group i simply because it has pacifist aims is not acceptable to me. There could be activities which many of us would not wish to support." Miss Hawkes and the others, said they do not intend to leave the campaign altogether. Canon John Collins of St.

Paul's Cathedral, the campaign's national leader, also said he is reconsidering his position. Canon Collins and the other five helped to get the campaign going in the 1950s. is known to cater to Americans. A scare shot through the Rex Theater on Sunday, when two big firecrackers, in cigarette cartons, exploded during the movie attended by Vietnamese and foreigners. The theater is in the same building as the American military officers billet and restaurant.

No one was hurt. U.S. munitions experts said the bombing of the Capita-Kindo theater could have been a disaster. The bomb, attached to a bicycle parked in an alley, damaged the theater slightly, causing no injury to the Americans. It razed several Missile to Span Parts Of Utah, New Mexico WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M.

(AP) A 35-foot, Pershing missile will streak over parts of Utah and New Mexico this week to impact in the soft sand of White Sands Missile Range. The green, solid-fuel missile will be in the skies an estimated seven minutes during which it will cover about 350 miles from near Bland- children, Leota Kae, 8, anu Floyd Shawn, Clarence and Bernice Hayden, both 62, of Heyburn, Idaho, 26 were taken to Albany General Hospital for Llnn treatment along with the pickup truck driver, Dennis R. Farwell, 18, of Shedd. None was considered seriously hurt, police said. Officer David Hill said the pickup driven by Farwell was southbound when papers on his dashboard began blowing around the cab.

Farwell told the officer that he glanced at the wind-blown papers and when he looked back at the road his truck was heading into the side of the approaching Endicott auto. Mrs. Endicott was sitting on the side of the impact. Farwell said he had just rolled down the window of his truck before the collision and apparently this had caused the papers to begin blowing. The pickup rolled over in the collision.

The accident occurred about 3:25 p.m. on a straight section of the highway, one mile south of here. It was the 26th traffic fatality in Linn County this year and the 76th in the five-county Mid-Willamette Valley area. Rain, Wind Bucked for Coast Prizes DEPOE BAY Pelting rain and shifting coastal winds made treasure hunting difficult along portions of the "20 Miracle Miles" Festival Sunday. But the crowds thronged to the beaches anyway, searching for some 150 "Japanese" floats, containing prize coupons redeemable from coast merchants.

The wind was perfect for treasure hunters when the plastic floats were set adrift Friday, but Sunday it shifted directions many times, keeping floats out at sea. Despite the changing winds and pelting rain a number of persons were able to retrieve floats, reported Stan Allyn, operator of the Tradewinds charter fishing fleet here. Salmon fishing was only fair, though, Allyn said. The crowd attracted to the an-nual event was reported heaty Sunday. The gala event continues through next weekend.

Pope's Talk Via Telstar VATICAN CITY 'AP) Pope Paul VI will make a televised address via the Telstar satellite to Georgetown University in Washington, DC, next Thursday, the Vatican announced Sunday. The address at 5:15 a m. EST will note the 174th anniversary of the Jesuit university. Good Monday Morning! Autumn Today Closes Cool Valley Summer Summer ends today in the mid-Willamette Valley in much the same fashion as it arrived with cool, wet weather. Autumn officially begins at 11:24 a.m.

(PDT) today. The chances are good that the event will be greeted by clouds and rain, according to weathermen. Clearing is expected this afternoon, but increasing cloudiness and occasional rain Tuesday. Summer of 1963 will be remembered by most for its storms and frequently cool and wet weather. Lovers of outdoor recreation suffered through the coolest and one of the wettest Julys in Salem history.

The average temperature was only 61.9, some 5.2 degrees below normal, and precipitation was more than twice the average. August Dry August showed some improvement. Temperatures were still somewhat below normal, but there was little rain. It remained for September to produce the warmest temperature of the summer 96 on Sept. 8.

It was one of the few times the mercury managed to top the 90 mark. But the September heat didn't last long. Just seven days after the 96 reading, the area recorded a high of 62. Storms Storms also disrupted summer activities. Rain and hail plastered Western Oregon Aug.

23, with accompanying lightning starting several fires. County and local fairs and celebrations were hampered by the inclement conditions. Lightning swept through the area again Sept. 9, starting hundreds of small fires. Hefty winds caused localized power outages.

The Weather Forecast: Mostly cloudy, showers early today. Fair this afternoon. Increasing clouds i tonight, occasional rain Tues- i day. High today 70. (Complete report on page 1) ing, Utah, to White Sands.

The Army is expected to fire the intermediate range artillery missile twice Tuesday, twice Wednesday and once Friday. The firings are part of the Army's overland testing program which started last May with firings of the Sergeant missile from Datil, N.M. After the Blanding tests, the 400 soldiers of the 2nd Missile 44th Artillery, Ft. Sill. will move about 150 miles south to Ft.

Wingate, N.M., for five more Pershing firings into White Sands. The Air Force plans to use the same air corridor for overland tests of the Athena missile, soon after the Ft. Wingate shoots. The missiles will not carry explosive warheads. The missile's critical period is the first 45 seconds of firing.

If it is not functioning perfectly it will be destroyed and wreckage will land in a safety zone surrounding the launch pad. Cliff Vigil Begins for Trapped Boy AUGUSTA. Mont. (AP) Rescuers set up an all-night vigil Sunday night below boy stranded on a rocky cliff after day-long attempts to reach him had failed. The boy, Bruce Gill.

10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gill of Great Falls, was trapped 200 feet up on a cliff while other members of the family fished nearby. Rescuers were centered at the nearby Sun Canyon Lodge, a dude ranch about 22 miles northwest of Augusta. A helicopter from Malmstrom Air Force Base was to leave early Monday morning to try to lift the boy off the cliff.

A Malmstrom helicopter flew the area late Sunday but it was too dark for a rescue attempt. Fire Hits Hog House At Fairview Fire destroyed a portion of a hog house and storage barn Sunday at the state-owned Cottage Farms, an a to Fairview Home for the mentally retarded. Damage was estimated by Salem Battalion Chief Donald Reinke at $3,500. Firemen from Salem, Four Corners and Oregon Correctional Institution answered the alarm about 6:30 p.m. at the farms, southeast of Salem.

Pigs in the barn were removed safely. Fairview officials said the blaze apparently started in the hay loft at the south end of the barn. Considerable hay was burned, in addition to the structural damage. The state police arson squad is scheduled to investigate today. Marion County sheriff deputies and state police were at the scene and assisted with traffic.

Richard Boone Has Injuries, Won't Travel SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP Extensive X-rays show that actor Richard Boone suffered a rib fracture Friday in the crash of his sports car, his doctor announced Sunday. The star of television's "Have Gun, Will Travel" will be released from the hospital Monday the physician said. The doctor said Boone, 46, will be able to walk around but will have to remain quietly at home, his side taped, for about a week. Boone's roadster struck a parked car as he returned from a reception and preview for his new series, "The Richard Boone Show." If you see a bear out for a stroll later today, don't give him any encouragement.

Our almanac tells us bears suddenly get hungry when fall starts, and aren't a bit choosey about ho they eat. And fall starts at 11.24 Daylight Time this morning. Our almanac also tells us to start immediately putting on snow chains and storm windows. It should all be done by noon. However, ifs the same almanac we quoted some months ago as saying there would be a hurricane en Sept.

19. Either there wasn't any or we slept all through last Thurjday. So we may decide to speak to every bear we meet today, as long as he speaks first, equinox or no equinox. It's a great day for stenographers, too. A national survey showed errors were 10 times as frequent in the 6pring and summer as in the fall and winter.

The survey didn't say so but with days now getting shorter it would seem also that coffee breaks might do the game. But they won't. Fall, a book advises us, "becomes a time of preparation for the rigors of winter." We'll heed the dviee. Our red flannels are in the drawer with the mouse trap and if no mouse has been caught since last spring we'll haul 'em out. If there has, we'll bum the bureau.

As a matter of actual record, it might be mentioned was 1S7 years ago today that the Lewis Clark expedition finally arrived back at its home base in St. Louis. But whether it was the equinox that day, too, way back there on Sept. 23. 1806, we couldn't say firsthand.

We weren't quite born until a little later. Lets of things have happened on other Sept. 23rds, toe. Several people have been born on that day, there being no specific law against it. Apparently it was doubtful mamas would pay much attention te such law, anyway, so none ever was passed.

We found around midnight last Sunday, though, that the law about The Statesman going to press on time wasn't to be ignored by us or anyone else. In fact, wa almost lost our Monday column's late," the news editor told us, adding that in his belief the serving of 100,000 readers otherwise was even moi important than our immortal contribution to liter-tturt, It rather hurt our feelings. (M.E.W.) Bomber's Error Spares 200 Americans in Saigon Theater Today's Statesman Paga Sac. Ann Landers 9 II Classified 10-12 II Comics 32.IV Crossword 32 IV Editorials 6 I Obituaries 5 I 10H Public Notices 10 II Panorama 9 II Sports 29-31IV Star Gazer 32V TV-adio 32 IV Valley News 3 Wirephoto SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) A miscalculation of 30 feet prevented a terrorist plastic bomb from collapsing the wall of a movie theater where 200 Americans, many of them children, sat watching a movie. This was the judgment of American munitions experts surveying Saigon's Capita-Kindo Theater where the bomb went off Saturday.

The experts expressed a belief the bomb was planted by Communist terrorisU. The theater.

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