2 Portland Newspapers
Receive Bombing Threat
' PORTLAND, Ore. UP> — The of
fices of the Portland Daily Re
porter were evacuated Friday
after an anonymous caller told
the switchboard operator, “your
presses will be blown up in 30
minutes.”
The afternoon paper missed an
edition while police searched the
building. No explosives were
found. \? '
“You'd better call off that
scholarship gag or your presses
will be blown up," the caller said.
The newspaper has been running
a subscription contest. The caller
gave no reason for. the threat.
Portland’s morning newspaper,
The Oregonian, received a similar
call about the same time, saying,
“you don’t need to worry about
the Reporter presses.”
The Oregonian called the FBI.
Rusk: On Disarmament
WASHINGTON UPl — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk said today
that while the Berlin crisis may
make disarmament seem “a dis
tant goal” it also points up the
urgent need to push ahead in this
field.
Testifying before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
Rusk said wise policy demands
that the nation “make strong, pa
tient and sincere efforts” to pro
mote disarmament even as it in
creases its military might to
iueei the new crisis.
Rusk urged passage of an ad
ministration proposal to create a
U.S. disarmament agency.
It was Calvin Coolidge who
memorably remarked, “Patriot
ism is easy to understand in Am
erica; it means looking out for
yourself by looking out for your
country.”
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Satellite - Echo I
Observes First
Birthday in Orbit
WASHINGTON <*> — Echo I—
a satellite you can see with the
naked eye — observed its first
birthday Saturday, still whizzing
about the earth months after ex
perts had predicted it would have
fallen to a flaming death in the
earth’s atmosphere.
U. S. experts now estimate the
huge balloon satellite, viewed by
millions around the world during
the past year, may sail around the
earth for another year.
Although it has proved much
more durable than anticipated, the
100-foot-diameter aluminum-coat
ed sphere is only about two
thirds as effective now as when
it was in its prime.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said that in
recent experiments in the bounc
ing of radio signals off the over
sized space ball the average re
flected energy was about 40 per
cent less than when it was inject
ed into orbit last Aug. 12.
“Satisfactory transmission of
voice, teletype and facsimile com
munications is still possible,”
NASA said.
NASA scientists offer several
theories as to what has happened
to Echo I.
Most agree that the once-smooth
surface has become wrinkled with
the passage of time and the recur
rent transitions from sunlight to
darkness and from intense heat
to bitter eold.
Some believe it may have
shrunk to a diameter of perhaps
70 feet. Others suggest that it has
lost its spherical symmetry and
has taken somewhat the form of
a football—and thus distorts sig
nals.
Still others speculate that the
extremely thin skin may have
punctured or even riddled by im
pact with micro-aifcttoiites.
During its first year, in which
it, will have made 4,480 revolu
tions of the earth and traveled
more than 138 million miles, Echo
has been used in some 150 signi
ficant communication experi
ments.
ALL ON THE IJOCE DAY . . .
BRISTOL, Pa. m — John Moa
,co, 41, a sheetmetal worker, be
came a father and grandfather on
the same day.
Mosco’s daughter, Mary Lou
Maxwell, 24, gave birth to a son,
Mark, before dawn Wednesday.
Eight hours later in the same
hospital his second wife, Mar-'
cella, 40, had a son, John Jr. They
have three other children.
$2 Million Worth
Of Paintings
Stolen in France
AIX-EN-PROVINCE, France UK
—Two million dollars worth of
borrowed paintings by French
impressionist Paul Cezanne were
stolen yesterday in southern
France’s seventh major art theft
in two years.
With police admitting they have
scarcely a clue in the latest haul,
a spokesman for the PaviUion
Vendome, which was showing the
paintings, indicated it is ready to
pay ransom to get them back.
They were insured for 10 million
francs ($2 million).
The Pavillion Vendome spokes
man said the masterpieces, most
of them borrowed from Ameri
cans and others for exhibit in this
ancient city where Cezanne was
bom, are so well known that no
reputable dealer would buy them.
■He expressed fears that the
thieves might try to peddle them
to a collector who would buy
them for his own secret pleasure.
Police said the theft had all the
trademarks of a band of profes
sionals. It was even more daring
than that at St. Tropez a month
ago when burglars got away with
paintings worth $2 million from
an unguarded museum by back
ing a truck up to the door. No
trace has been found of these.
Kennedy Signs Tariff Bill
WASHINGTON UK — The
amount of goods subject to tariffs
which American tourists may
bring home with them duty-free
will drop from $500 to $100 next
month.
President Kennedy signed today
the bill he asked Congress to en
act making the change.
The measure is effective in 30
days and remains in force until
June 30, 1963.
Kennedy asked the reduction as
part of his program to restrict the
flow of dollars from the United
States and reduce the strain on
U. S. gold holdings.
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Soviet Spaceship
Passed Over Vital
Military Regions
WASHINGTON UP) — Russia’s
manned spaceship Vostok II made
perhaps nine passes over North
American territory, which sug
gests interesting possibilities of
future military reconnaissance.
Some of the passes brought Maj.
Titov’s satellite over or in the
general area of some militarily
significant regions.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said Sat
i urday in response to an inquiry
that approximately half of the
17 orbits of the Vostok carried it
over U. S. or Canadian territory
—in most cases over both.
On the basis of this reply and
by computing announced positions
of the vehicle, it is possible to
find that the criss-cross ,pattern of
orbits covered a wide area of the
North American continent.
The government has declined
to say just how closely it tracked
the spaceship, or by what
methods. NASA did say that the
Vostok had been tracked “since
shortly after it lifted off.”
The effectiveness of the track
ing was such that NASA was able
to predict in advance times and
.places over which the Vostok
would fly.
Among the regions over which
Titov and his spaceship passed
were the Eastern Seaboard with
its big metropolitan areas and
j military bases; the down range
corridor of the Pacific missile
test range; the general area of
the Atlantic test range south
westward from Cape Canaveral,
Flo.
The craft also crossed the Unit
ed States in New Mexico, where
missile tests and nuclear research
are carried on; and in Montana
where the Air Force is installing
intercontinental missile launch
ing sites.
Its orbit also carried the Vos
tok over Alaska, site of air and
other military bases; and a por
tion of Greenland, site of a Bal
listic Missile Early Warning Sta
tion.
Utility Board Meeting
Tuesday — 7: SO p. &
City Hall
PHS Officials Inspect
U of A Campus for
Possible Laboratory Site
Various possible sites on the
University of Alaska campus at
College were inspected by a
group of U. S. Public Health
Service officials who are making
arrangements for location of a new
water pollution control laboratory,
which is to be established in Alas
ka in accordance with the water
pollution control bill which pass
ed Congress la_.t -fr.rrc.tb. w v. >
The laboratory, under terms Of
the status, must have university
affiliation. Murray Stein, assist
ant chief of the Division of Water
Pollution Control of the Public
Health Service and several as
sistant, accomapnied by Herbert
W. Beaser. legislative assistant
to Sen. Gruening, conferred with
president William Wood of the
university and members of the
faculty on plans for the new
facility.
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dream — but you do. Everyone
spends up to 20 per cent or more
of his sleeping hours dreaming.
If you have a high intelligence
quotient, you dream more.
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The U. S. Army Engineers
District. Alaska, is Mr turning
invitations for sealed bids (Inv
81-20) offering one (1) mitttary
type building for sale Si Nome
Radio Station, Nome, AEaflta.
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pja. 15 September 1801.
Further information and bid
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ing at Room 7D. Bldg 21-700.
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