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Page Z& EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1963 U.S. Officials Ponder Paper Insists RAF 'Raid' Successful Official Denials Brushed Aside -. II ' ( 5 if rr - . ? Steps Against Castro ml br4$i . By LEWIS GULICK Of tht AttocUtea Prcu '; WASHINGTON The United Slates sought Tuesday to rally stronger pressures against Cuba still the base for an estimated 16,000 to 17,000 Soviet soldiers as the next step in an effort to end the Communist threat in ' Big Powers Close UN. Role in Cuba UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. M The United States and the Soviet Union have closed the U.N. book on the Cuban crisis that two months ago raised the prospect of nuclear war. - The big powers, in a joint letter Monday night to U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, conceded that they have not been able to resolve all problems in connection with the crisis. But they said in view of understandings they have reached, it is not necessary for the matter "to occupy further the attention of the Security Council at this time." - The chief remaining deadlock was Cuba's refusal to admit the foreign inspectors demanded by the United States to verify . the removal of Soviet offensive Dock Strike Neg( fotiators Holding Talks NEW YORK Wt Separate meetings of negotiators for both sides in the Atlantic and Gulf coasts dock strike resumed Tuesday following an expression of disappointment by a federal mediator. James J. Reynolds, assistant secretary of labor, told news men that Monday's separate meetings "were disappointing in that they did not show the slightest progress. - Losses were reported to have passed the $320-million mark as the strike that has crippled hipping in ports from Maine to Texas went into Its 17th day. : More than 100 ships have been idled here by the strike of 60,000 members of the AFL-CIO International Longshoremen's Assn. in a contract dispute. Dozens of ships are marooned in other ports, ' Reynolds told newsmen that the strike is affecting the na lion's foreign policy. He said more than a million tons of food aid to Pakistan, Algeria, Brazil and other countries is tied up. The contract deadlock is be tween the union and the New York Shipping Assn., which rep resents 149 shipping and steve doring companies. Contract terms reached between the two groups here traditionally set a pattern for other ports. The union is seeking a pack age of SO cents an hour, includ ing 26 cents in wages, over a two-year period. The industry has offered a wage increaso of 22 cents an hour over two years. Pre-strike basic wages averaged $3.02 an hour. Several issues in addition to wages are in dispute. Admiral Leaves On Two-Week Tour HONOLULU wv Adm. Harry D. Felt, U. S. military command er In the Pacific, left Honolulu Monday for a two-week tour of Southeast Asia, Japan and Ko rea, accompanied by Edward Martin, State Department advis er to the Pacific Command. A Pacific headquarters spokesman declined to say what countries in Southeast Asia arc on the admiral's itinerary, but it Is assumed he will visit Viet Nam, Thailand and the Philip pines. SCHOOL AND OFFICE SUPPLY SALE! PloiHc Boll Point PENS 1237c Limit Right! Raiervad 100 Count Strno NOTEBOOKS 219 Limit Rights Reserved mum ''"'Itself Plut GREEN STAMPS the hemisphere. U.S. officials believe the cam paign may be long and difficult. The United States and the So viet Union put a formal and dip. lomatic end to the Cuban crisis Monday with a letter announc ing the conclusion of their talks. The letter, from U.S. Ambas- missiles and jet bombers. The Soviet Union also failed to get guarantees against an in vasion of Cuba. The joint letter was signed by U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Ste venson and Soviet Deputy For eign Minister Vasily V, Kuznet sov. Separate Letter Cuba's delegate, Carlos Lechu ga, raised no objection to drop ping the matter in the Security Council. But he said in a sepa rate letter that the U.S. offer of a no-invasion pledge on condi tion that Cuba permit foreign inspection was "preposterous insolence." He reiterated Prime Minister Fidel Castro's contcn tion that the decision to permit "inspection of its territory is the sovereign right of a nation." Lechuga said the U.S.-Sovict negotiations had failed to pro duce an agreement "capable of guaranteeing in a permanent way the peace of the Caribbean and in liquidating the existing tensions." Removal Verified Although Castro refused to admit foreign inspectors to Cuba, U.S. air and sea recon naissance verified the Soviet re moval of nuclear-capable mis siles and bombers which could reach U.S. cities as well as the dismantling of the missile bases. The Kennedy administration finally said it was aatisficd the offensive weapons had been re moved from Cuba. The Kenne dy administration believes there still are 16,000 to 17,000 Soviet soldiers in Cuba. Castro, at his Jan. 2 anniversary parade, dis played Soviet antiaircraft mis siles which he boasted could knock down any foreign plane that flew over Cuba. Former Actress Dies HOLLYWOOD lD May Bo- Icy, 81, former Broadway and motion picture actress and singer, died Monday in Holly wood Presbyterian Hospital af ter a lengthy illness. Hefty Bundle SALT LAKE CITY W Mrs. Erwin Frank, who thought she was going to have twins, gave birth to a 15-pound, one ounce boy. The child arrived Saturday night at Latter-day Saints Hospital. The infant is (lie seventh child of Mrs. Frank and her husband, who works at a dairy plant. sador Adlai E. Stevenson and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov to U.N. Sec retary - General U Thant, ac knowledged they had not been able to "resolve all the prob lems that have arisen in con nection" with the crisis. But they said they hoped that the "actions taken to avert the threat of war" will lead "toward the adjustment of other differ ences between the two coun tries. One issue still remaining is that of Cuba itself. The U.S. government, Wash ington officials stated, stands firmly committed to President Kennedy s promise to try to halt Cuban subversion and to his proposition - that "the Cuban people shall some day be truly free." Since the avowed U.S. intent is not to accomplish this by mil itary invasion, and proposed measures are more psychologi cal and economic than forceful, an indefinite period of contest lay ahead. Informants said the estimate of 16,000 to 17,000 Soviet mili tary personnel still in Cuba substantially above some pre vious estimates stemmed from a re-evaluation of intelligence data rather than any new influx of Soviet troops. The higher count was also said to have grown from infor mation indicating Soviet sol diers are more widely engaged in the Cuban military system than previously thought. The current U. S. assessment sums up this way: About two-thirds of the ap proximately 17,000 Soviet mili tary in Cuba are advisers and technicians. About one-third are combat soldiers in four heavily armed battalions. About 4.000 troops those associated with the withdrawn missiles and zbombers have left. The expectation here is that the number of trainers and technicians will dwindle as their tasks are completed in future months. There is no sign of de parture of the combat battalions. The U. S. government has made plain it intends to con tinue its aerial surveillance over Cuba. Limits on the effectiveness of a general hemispheric restric tion on trade with Cuba are recognized here. It was pointed out that the $53 million in U. S. food-drugs ransom for the Cu ban invasion prisoners amount ed to about five years worth of Latin American trade with Cuba, now running about $10 million annually. Cuba now is plagued by economic troubles. The U. S. foreign agriculture service said Tuesday that four years of Cas tro administration has just about wrecked the island's agri culture. Journalism School Gets $1,000 Grant A $1,000 research-travel grant has been made to the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon by the Reader's Digest Foundation of Pleasantville, New York. The grant is to be used to assist journalism students who are conducting research proj ects that involve travel. Both undergraduate and graduate students may he aided by the fund. The grant was announced by Sterling Fisher, executive di rector of the Reader's Digest Foundation. Fisher indicated that additional grants may be made annually to the School of Journalism. J 1 y a A fvP 1 1 22 i Q rr vv tin ii Z'm (AP Wlrephmol - Rutha Tshombe, right, wife of President Moishe Tshombe of Katan- I Pave ga Province sits in car with Mrs- Yay Osimba, wife of the Katangan f , defense minister, and their children upon arriving at Rome airport Africa Mondav t0 board plane for Brussels, Belgium. They were en route rAlUCd from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. U.S. Farm Experts Freeman Cautions Against Barriers MIAMI BEACH, Fla. W Sec retary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman cautioned the Euro pean Common Market Tuesday that barriers against U.S. farm exports could force a cut in American foreign aid and spread the "contagious virus" of protec tionism. He said a sizable reduction in America's Western Europe farm markets would increase U.S. def icits abroad at a time when the nation might be unable to carry them. The alternative might be, he said, a reduction in foreign economic and security aid. Freeman, in a speech pre pared for a convention of the National Council of Farmer Co operatives, said the United States is making the strongest possible representation against European Common Market poli cies which would encourage higher-cost domestic production of farm products and close the door to U.S. products. "The vital nature of our ex port trade in farm products causes us to be deeply con cerned that protectionist ten dencies are appearing today in the common agricultural policy of the European Common Mar ket," Freeman said. "We have emphasized that protectionism is like a coma Technicians Probe Minuteman Failure CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. I Technicians are seeking the cause of the failure of the first missile fired in 1963 from this test center, a Minuteman which fell short of its planned 5,000- mile range. Tho flight Monday was the second for the more powerful Wing 2 model of the Minute man. The first was successful. The earlier Wing 1 missile was declared operational last month. Woman Fined $50 On Larceny Charge A 55-year-old Lowell woman was fined $50 in Springfield Justice Court last week after pleading guilty to a charge of petty larceny. The woman, Helen F. Hur- ford, admitted taking six yards of print cloth from Alexander s Dept. Store. The value of the cloth was 33-cents a yard, Springfield police said. Fashionable car WEAK finest manufacturer. ?ow ottered in wide variety of tremendous reductions. Fur-trimmed poi lins. Dile-lined poplins, corduroys, woo! with knit trim, orlon pile. All in favor ite basic colors. Sizes 8 to 20. Originally $19.95 to $39.95. Now $13.30 to S26.63 i ' gious virus that can spread from one body to another, since nei ther we nor other nations can follow liberal trade rules if pro tectionism is the new order of the day among trading part ners," he said. Freeman said the Council of Ministers of the Common Mar ket countries will meet in Brus sels Jan. 14 to pass judgment on this country's petition that they lower recently increased import duties on poultry. "I assure you that everything possible will be done at the ne gotiating table this year and next to keep a valuable market open to the efficient American poultry industry," Freeman said. Other products likely to be affected adversely, he said, in clude wheat, feed grains, and rice. Guerrilla War In New Phase SAIGON, South Viet Nam Wl A rising tide of South Viet namese casualties indicates that the long guerrilla war has en tered a new phase of large-scale engagements. - The fighting is fiercer than at any time since the Indochina war ended in 1054. In five days, South Vietnam government forces have suf fered 122 killed in three battles. Viet Cong casualties are be lieved heavy. In the latest battle, the Viet Cong stormed into a defended hamlet near the seacoast 240 miles northeast of Saigon Sun day. They killed 24. wounded 10 and captured 27 South Viet namese and a sizable stock of arms. The government claimed 60 enemy killed or wounded. Analysts of Vict Cong tactics feel the Communists may be try ing to rack up a good score of successes to offset low morale that has been reported recently. Soviet Hospital KATMANDU, Nepal King Mahcndra dedicated a 50-bed hospital this week, built with Soviet aid and staffed with 10 Russian medical workers. The Soviet Union contributed 800, 000 rupees ($105,000), more than 60 per cent of the cost. WOMEN'S ZM COATS Famous Northwest coats by the Northwest's II styles and colors a S & H A ' j v mi nlTIMwai Pathet Lao To Continue Plane Attacks VIENTIANE, Laos Amer ican planes distributing relief supplies to Laotian mountain tribesmen will continue to risk destruction if they fly over ter ritory held by the Pathet Lao, Information Minister Phoumi Vongvichit said Tuesday. Two planes have been shot down and two Americans killed in the past six weeks. ; Vongvichit is a leading mem ber of the Pathet Lao, the pro Communist faction within the government headed by neutral ist Premier Souvanna Phouma. The information minister told newsmen the hazard to U. S. re lief planes will apply until there is a coalition agreement on dis tribution of the supplies. Re minded that Souvanna himself authorized the American opera tions, Vongvichit snapped that, "Before signing, Souvanna must have an accord of the three factions." He suggested the United States should follow the exam ple of the Soviet Union, which backed the Pathet Lao in the Laotian civil war and gave Laos several transport planes. American officials feel a mor al obligation to continue relief flights to the Meos tribesmen, who fought the Pathet Lao. They believe that if these flights were abruptly discontin ued the refugees would either starve or be left at the mercy of the Red guerrillas. Souvanna said he is sorry the planes are being shot at and that a meeting of factional lead ers will be called to discuss this question. Bad Case Of 'Pay Fever' HONOLULU Iffl A bank employe in Honolulu has lost his job as a teller because he's allergic to money. Clifford Fujiwara, 21, be gan sneezing uncontrollably after promotion to his teller's job in Honolulu's American Security Bank. His doctor diagnosed that Fujiwara prob ably is the only banker in the world who can't stand to be around the green stuff. This week Fujiwara is work ing in the bank's commercial department where money is listed in ledgers. He doesn't sneeze at that. Brand OFF GREEN STAMPS LONDON UPD The Daily Express Tuesday brushed aside official denials and insisted Royal Air Force jet bombers recently had slipped past U.a defenses in a surprise mock at tack on American cities. The newspaper said it first published the story Monday only after receiving "firm con firmation" from the British Air Ministry. Express Air reporter Keith Thompson rejected denials of the report by the British Air Ministry in London and the Pentagon in Washington. "The fact is that the V bomb ers have penetrated U.S. de fenses, and recently," Thomp son insisted. Contradicts Pentagon This contradicted a statement by a Pentagon spokesman who said no British bombers had participated in U.S. defense exercises since 1961. He said the Express report and similar reports in other British news papers were wjthout founda tion. In Topsham, Maine, officials of Air Force radar warning sta tion backed the Pentagon Tues day. A spokesman said the lat est British Vulcan bomber visit" to the United States was a landing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., by planes on a round-the-world flight with regular flight plans in December, 1962. Several other British morning newspapers including the Times, the Mirror and the Mail published factual accounts of the reports and the denials Tuesday. Thompson said officials in London and Washington spent all day Monday consulting about his story. 'Lines Crossed' "What started as a firm con firmation from the Air Ministry ended up as flat denials on both sides of the Atlantic, with the Air Ministry telling me 'the lines got crossed'," Thompson said. Chapman Pincher, defense expert for the Express, said in a commentary the denials fol lowed "the standard pattern of U. S. pressure being applied to save face in Washington and laces in Whitehall." The Whitehall den-artmenis almost always conform because of near pathological fear of of fending Washington and a com pulsive desire to give into the hidden persuaders in the Penta gon, Pincher said. In an editorial, the Express said its story had raised funda mental issues on the power and effectiveness of Britain's nu clear force and "the vulner ability of her greatest ally." (I Vr'RIMG H REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. THIS SYMBOL When displayed on the electrical panel of your home, means that its electrical distribution sys tem meets the Association's standards for mod ern home wiring. It assures tha home owner ol: adequate capacity In the electrical panel. use of proper size wire. an adequate number of circuits. sufficient number of wall outlets. provision for economical future expansion Ask to see this symbol when inspecting a new home, or if you plan to remodel, tell your electrical contractor that you want a "Certified Wiring" job. (AP Wirepbolo) WANTS JOB Robert S. Kerr Jr., 36, says he will seek election in 1964 to the U.S. Senate seat of his father who died Jan. 1. J. Howard Edmondson resigned as Oklahoma governor to fill the Sen ate vacancy until the next general election. .' : Chinese Say India Wants Border Fight TOKYO (UPD Communist China Tuesday announced a 'positive response" to neutralist proposals for mediating the Sino-Indian border dispute, but accused India of wanting to fight. The offical New China News Agency broadcast communiques which the Peking regime signed Monday with Indonesia and Cey lon as representatives of the Colombo Conference of Afro Asian Nations. "The Chinese government gave a positive response to the proposals of the Colombo Con ference," the communiques said. The statement added that it was "agreed that in the interests of Afro-Asian solidarity it was imperative that a solution to the Sino-Indian boundary question be found without delay in keep ing with the spirit of the ten principles of the Bandung Con ference." The Bandung Conference in 1955 called for policies of non aggression and non-intervention in affairs of other states. Tuesday's Red Chinese news papers said India has failed to demonstrate sincerity for peace ful negotiations on the border dispute. Editorials from the pa pers were quoted by the news agency. The Peking People's Daily, the Communist party news paper, said India was only "blustering incessantly" about settling the dispute. It said In dia was permitting "imperial ism" to promote plans to make "Asians fight Asians." ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION of Lane County, Inc. P.O. Box 321, Eugene AT ALL 4 TIFFANY STORES 64 E. Broadway I 99
