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United States Created A 'Private Army' Opposing Interests In South Viet Nam . WASHINGTON (UPI) j- One of the untold stories of the Viet Nam crisis is the fact that the United States itself largely created what has recently be come a "private army" working against American interests there. U.S. aid and advice both went into creation two years ago of a special Vietnamese military force responsible i to the palace rather than to the military. It now is the arm of the president's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. At present, some of these Spe cial Forces, intended to fight the Communists in the mountains and delta country, are being used in Saigon's security troops. Among U.S. officials the story raised fundamental issues of what controls are available to this country to avoid creating "Frank enstein monsters" in projects it must set up or assist in foreign lands. When Nhu, chief adviser to Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, launched massive raids against Buddhist pagodas' on Aug. 21, he called on two main groups for the job. Brazil Plans Rehabilitation Of Scorched Parana Areas CURITIBA, Brazil (UPI)-Gov. Ncy Braga of fire-devastated Parana State said s c o r c he d rural areas must be rehabilitated at once to keep dispossessed ' farmers from swarming into al ready crowded cities. "Our work now is to rebuild the state, to plant new seed and to find homes for the homeless," Braga told UPI. "We will have to feed, clothe and house refugees for at least three months . , . "We must act immediately to get seeds and start building up Action In Senate Would Open Unions To Negro Workers WASHINGTON (UPI) The Sen ate Commerce Committee today wrote a provision into President Kennedy's civil rights bill to open membership in labor un ions to Negroes. By a 9-6 vote which crossed party lines, the committee added a new section to Kennedy's pub lic accommodations bill which would require unions to practice non-discrimination in accepting members. Sen. John 0. Pastore, D-R.I., second-ranking Democrat on the Senate committee, promptly warned that such an amendment "will defeat the public accommo dations bill we are trying to pass. "It will have a very strong, de feating influence on the enact ment of public accommodations," Pastore added. Across the Capitol, a House Ju diciary subcommittee tentatively approved a proposal to make the Federal Civil Rights Commission : ncrmanent agency. ''he action, taken with biparti- sunport, was a step beyond letly's request for a four r extension of the com mon's life. The commission, set up in 1957, oes out of existence Nov. 30 un less Congress acts to continue it before the deadline. The commission section was the second part of the civil rights bill to win tentative subcommittee-approval. The group Wednes day cleared Kennedy's proposal for " a new federal community re lations service to help mediate ra cial disputes. agriculture to avoid a mass ex odus to the cities." The governor estimated the damage done to crops in Parana by last month's killing frosts and this month's tragic fires in the millions of dollars. He predicted a 30 per cent drop in farm earn ings for the year. The flames which raced over a 600-square-mile area of Parana, killing at least 300 persons, were brought under control earlier this week. Heavy rains, beginning Tuesday night, quenched such small fires as were still burning. Brazilian agencies have pledged $1 million for the purchase of seeds $560,000 from banks and 8440,000 from the government, Federal funds also will be avail able for the reconduction of homes and farm buildings. Foreign aid is expected to help take up the slack. The United States, Britain and Israel already nave onerea emergency supplies and food and medicine began ar riving by the planeload this week. The fires swept through the northern third of Parana, injur ing an estimated 30,000 persons ana leaving 400,000 homeless. UPI correspondent Antonio Nasi Bruni accompanied President Joao Goulart on a flight over the scorched earth this week. Mucn 01 tne cotfee acreaee which was the state's principal source of wealth has gone up in flames," Bruni said. "As we flew over the state, we could see en tire cities seared by the flames, wun no sign or me nearbv. Everywhere, there was des olation. 'In Londrina, a 'millionaire city' that lived on the coffee trade, the air was toxic, full of choking soot." One consisted of units of the so-called "Special Forces" of the Vietnamese army. The other was special ponce security section of Viet Nam's national police and security service. It was the police who apprently went inside the pagoda while the Special Forces stood by outside. Both have received American aid. The Special Forces bear the same name as units which U.s. Army also has banded at - Ft. Bragg, N.C., and have the same purpose. They are highly trained guerrilla warfare as "para military" units operating general ly in small teams able to drop behind enemy lines and move fast unburdened by heavy equipment. Highly Diversified The Viet Nam special forces are used mainly in the mountains for hit-and-run raids against small and specific targets. The men also are trained in diverse skills such as operating field guns working radios, dynamiting and speaking local dialects. The United states was mstru mental in setting up these units in 1961, when 'Communist guerril las were terrorizing the country with tactics against which old fashioned .military sciences was useless. It was necessary to ap ply some of the Communists own tactics against them. Davidson Resigns Democratic Post PORTLAND (UPI) Oregon Democratic National Committee man C. Girard Davidson has sub mitted his resignation to Demo cratic National Chairman John Bailey, it was announced today. Davidson, who has extensive lumber interests in Alaska, has been commuting between his Port land law office and his Alaska headquarters at Wrangell for the past several months. In his letter to Bailey, Davidson said his Alaska interests "will continue to receive most of my time as ell as require extended ahsences from Oregon. Davidson has been a national committeeman from Oregon since 1956. He said he planned to at tend the Western States Democrat tic Conference in Salt Lake City Sept. 19-21. He represents the 13 Western states on the national committee's executive committee. Davidson's successor as com mitteeman from Oregon will be r'eked by the Democratic State Central Committee and will serve thmiioh the 1964 national conven tion. The committee has not yet set a date to act. Senate Committee Approves Fish Ban WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Commerce Committee has approved a ban on fishine bv roreign vessels in U.S. waters. ay unanimous vote, the com mittee approved a bill which would make it unlawful for for eign ships to fish in territorial waters or take fish resources from the continental shelf that are claimed by the United States Under provisions of the bill. vio lators would be subject to a fine of $10,000, a year in prison or both, and their vessels could be seized. The measure is being pushed by a group of New England and West Coast senators, including Sen. Ed ward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., the President s younger brother. New England fishermen have complained, recently that Russian crawlers are iismng close off shore. And the Soviet fishermen have been accused of using illegal nets, although the State Depart ment recently did not substantiate this charge. On the West Coast and in Alas ka, fishermen have been engaged in severe fishing competition with Russian and Japanese vessels. Chairman Warren Magnuson, D Wash., said the bill did not spell out how far American territorial waters extend. He said this will be left to the executive branch Kennedy Asks Solons To Back Test Treaty WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi- Kennedy said the United States dent Kennedy has urged the Sen ate to provide the widest pos sible margin" of support for the nuclear test ban treaty to prove America s leadershiD in the quest for world peace. Kennedy said that if the Senate gives "only grudging support to the pact then this nation can not offer much hope of leadership in the future." The President opened his news conference with a statement re emphasizing "how important it is" that the Senate approve the treaty now pending before it. "It will enable all of us who inhabit the earth. . . our children and our children's children to breathe easier,", the President said. Kennedy ahjo paid high tribute to community leaders in South ern cities where school desegrega tion has been carried out peace ably this fall. He noted a statement that schools in 150 Southern communi ties have been desegregated dur ing the past two weeks. And while there have been "some dificulties," he said, it is "to the ereat credit of the vast majority of citizens and public of ficials in these communities" that flip desegregation has been car ried out on the whole with "orderly and peaceful process." On another foreign policy front is not engaged in South Viet Nam "to see a war lost" there. He said policies which hinder that coun try's war effort against Commu nist guerrillas are "inconsistent with our policies and our objec tives." The President, however, declined to spell out In more detail what bis administration plans to do about Viet Nam because it is not desirable to "state all our views at this time." He said U. S. poli cies in the area will become clear er as events unfold. , Kennedy made these other points: Ho has read only parts of a book that is extremely critical of him but he does not regard it as highly as some news columnists. Asked how he would review the book, Victor Lasky's' "J.F.K. The Man and the Myth," he said, "The part I. read was not as bril liant as they (the reviewers) de scribed." Revealed that he plans to ad dress the United Nation's Gen eral Assembly in the near future. He indicated he would present new U.S. proposals for strength ening the world organization's functions as an instrument for peace. While he set no date, Kennedy said he would appear before that body "in the next few days." The General ssembly is scheduled to convene Sept. 17. Defeat Of Tax Bill Would Force Cufs In Oregon Education Funds (Editors note: Predicted major cutbacks In the state' education program In cast of defeat of the legislature's $60 million tax In crease measure at the Oct. 15 lection are not threats. They are warnings. Third of a five-part se ries.) By ZAN STARK SALEM (UPI) To understand the threat to Oregon's education program if voters reject the leg islature's tax increase bill at the Oct. 15 election, you have to know something about the state's budget. The state's total budget for 1963- 65 totals more than $1.2 billion. Of this, $404 milbon is in the general fund. The other $800-plus million is made up of dedicated funds, such Auto Damaged By Fire The Roscburg Rural Fire De partment answered a call Thurs day morning to a car fire on Land ers Lane in the Green area. The car, belonging to Wylic O'Neal, 4934 S. W.. Holgate, caught fire when it backfired through the carburetor. Damage was estimat ed at $50. as gasoline tax revenue which goes for highways, or federal matching funds for welfare), or the total federal support of the de partment of employment. It s that $404 million in the gen eral fund that's at issue. That's the money the legislature or the governor can control. More than half that $404 mil lion goes to education. More than one-third of it goes to basic school support alone. Basic school sup port is money the stale gives to local school districts. Threat Not Intended The governor, legislators and education officials aren't trying to threaten anyone when they warn a defeat of the tax bill will have a major effect on education. Here's where that $404 million goes: $234 million for education. $16 million for new buildings, $50 million for welfare and social services, $36 million for public health and mental hospitals, $27 million for public safety, $11 mil lion for natural resources, and $30 million for all other operations. One way to shave $60 million from this general fund budget is to cancel the $16 million building program, and make an across-the-board 11 per cent cut in all other expenditures. Because education totals $234 Fri., Sept. 13, 1963 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 5 million $141 million of it the basic school support money this will be the hardest hit of any of the stale programs. Other Cuts Destructive It wouldn't be possible to make the full $60 million cut In the $170 million that does not go to edu cation without destroying other programs. . This is why state and education officials shouldn't be accused of trying to use education as a "threat." If the cuts become ne cessary, education will be hard hit simply because It accounts for so much of the budget. Higher education has already 1 announced what it might do if the tax measure fails. Entrance re quirements will be raised to freeze enrollments at their present level. This would mean about 3,000 Ore gon youths would not be able to enter college next year. Host of the building program would be postponed, and tuition fees would be raised. Lower education's problem is ' much more complicated. NEED OIL? Call 673-8356 SOUTH END FUEL Co. STANDARD HEATING OILS Choir Concert Slated By Church Youth Group A sacred concert by the youth' rhnir will be nresented in the Rose- hure Seventh-day Adventist church on Garden Valley Boulevard at 6:30 Saturday evening to which the public is invited, according to El ton Hansen, chairman of the board of elders. This choir, with Bernie Paulson as director and Bert Pearson as his assistant, is composed of young people of the church of academy and college age and has been func tioning as a church choir during the summer vacation. There will be no admission charge, according to Hansen. Negro Gets More Time To Fight Extradition SPOKANE (UPI) Charles Will Cauthen, 26-year-old Negro whose fate was decided in less than day in a Georgia courtroom four years ago, received an extension Thursday in his fight against ex tradition to face electrocution on a first degree murder conviction. Justice of the Peace Ellsworth Gump granted Cauthen a 60-day extension to Nov. 20 to provide evidence in his Feb. 23, 1959, trial at Zebulon, Ga., but denied a re quest that bond be reduced from $100,000 to $5,000. Cauthen has been sentenced to die in the elctric chairn in Georgia for the murder of a white service station attendant. He escaped from jail at Griffin, Ga., May 25," 1959. Twenty-eight persons from War den, Wash., friends of Cauthen, appeared in court today. Four testified in his behalf. LOST T0UI lICEnSt TO IHIVEt . SM ROLF'S PREFERRED INSURANCE fir Ft tetlH. luttllMiti liiitiklt 939 S. E. 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