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Tshombe Vows End To 'Scorched Earth' By BRUCE W. MUN , or th United Preu international UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPD r Secessionist leader Moise ; Tshombe has assured the United Nations that he has called off his, scorched earth policy in Katanga, a U. N. spokesman ' said Thursday. The spokesman said Tshombe also pledged that the U. N. force could advance to the Rhodesian Major Issues j At a Glance j WASHINGTON in Here is a capsule of major issues ex pected to be fought out in the first session of the 88th Con gress which opened Wednesday: TAXES President Kennedy has put an income tax cut at the top of his 1963 legislative list; he plans to couple it with a request for various reforms. It's likely to be under congressional consideration for the entire session, with prosp pects for some bill fair to good. HEALTH CARE The President is certain to renew his drive for a health plan for the aged financed under Social Security. But the key to passage will be the House Ways and Means Committee which rejected it in the last Congress. EDUCATION The administration is working on some new wrinkles in its package of federal aid proposals. But a college aid bill still seems to have the best chance of enact ment. Congressional backers are pessmistic about prospects for a broad grade and high school bill. DEFENSE The expected $50 billion defense budget is sure to win easy approval. But Pentagon decision not to go ahead with the Skybolt missile and to go easy on the RS70 plane will be challenged sharply. FARM New proposals to control crop surpluses, parti ' cularty in feed grains, are in the works. The usual donny brook is considered certain to result. CIVIL RIGHTS The administration has kept mum on its intentions in this field. Legislation aimed at literacy tests as a voting prerequisite may be revived, i FOREIGN AID Now under study by a presidential com mission, this perennial will produce a session-end battle as always. Democratic leaders are hopeful foreign aid funds ' can be held down this year, with Western European nations picking up more of the tab. MASS TRANSIT Kennedy is expected to continue his . support for a federal grant program aimed at easing traffic jams in cities. Prospects fair. URBAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT Congressional back ers plan to push this again with administration support. Faces an uphill battle. BUDGET Appropriations committee leaders have served notice they will hack away at the expected $99 billion budget. But cuts in appropriations often do not translate into any real savings in spending, and that is the likely result again this year. Oregon to Change Policies Of Selling State Land Timber SALEM Wt The State Board of Forestry decided Wednesday to change its policy of selling timber from state land, follow ing a discussion of the problems involved in recovering timber blown down in the Columbus Day storm. The policy the board adopted would sell the timber on the basis of how much can be re- Car Sideswipes Bus; Girl Killed PENDLETON W An auto mobile skidded on ice Wednes day, sideswiped a school bus, then tumbled over an embank ment on Highway 395 some 56 miles south of Pendleton. Leatha Ellen Choatc, 6, John Day, was killed. State police said the driver, Bobby Choate, 25, John Day, the girl's mother, Mona Choate, and another passenger were injured. Nobody in the school bus was hurt. 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The spokesman said the board also decided, for the first time in its history, to use condem nation in order to get right-of-way across some private lands to reach state timber. The Department of Forestry has had, trouble negotiating two right-of-way purchases in Coos and Douglas counties, the spokesman said. The rights-of-way are needed to reach some two million board feet of timber, the board said in deciding to take the con demnation action. Heads Bar Assn. PORTLAND (UPD Herbert C. Hardy, a Portland attorney, has been elected as president of the Multnomah Bar Assn. He succeeds John U. Yerkovich, also of Portland. spokesman said then that this meant house arrest. Guard Was Withdrawn Tunisian troops ' surrounded Tshombe in his presidential pal ace in Elisabethville. But the guard was withdrawn six hours later and Tshombe set out on an apparently triumphal drive to meet his aides and troops at Mokambo, near the Rhodesian border. The spokesman said that rath er than house arrest, Thant's order meant that steps should be taken to prevent Tshombe from issuing further inflamma tory statements such as his "frequently announced" pro gram of scorched earth and sabotage mentioned by Thant in a statement Wednesday night. The spokesman said the pal ace guard was withdrawn when Tshombe agreed to end the scorched earth policy. British and Belgian consuls intervened with U.N. authori ties in Elisabethville before Tshombe's release. The spokesman here said Tshombe's pledge to end the sabotage program was given to British Consul Derek Dodson, who transmitted it to Eliud Matheu, chief U. N. official in Elisabethville, for relay to Thant. Four Basic Points The spokesman said Tshom be's attitude toward Thant's de mand for his agreement on four basic points" was not known. Chief of these conditions was freedom of movement for U. N. troops throughout Katanga, in cluding their peaceful entry in to the mining center of Kolwezi. Western diplomats feared Tshombe's continued detention would have orought the destruc tion of Kolwezi, vital to the en tire Congo economy, by Tshom be's demolition experts. Thant s other points called for an end to the scroched earth policy, Tshombe's renunciation of his often repeated intention to fight to the last man," and his cooperation in the U. N. plan for reunifying The Congo. Undersecretary Ralph J. Bunche, Thant's chief Congo aide who said Thursday in Rome en route from The Congo that he did not know of Tshom be's detention, was due to ar rive at New York International Airport Thursday with a first hand report on conditions in the African country. Police Probe Apparel Theft Eugene police were checking a report Wednesday of the theft of clothes valued at $125 from a Eugene apartment. The report was received Tuesday evening that an apart ment occupied by Michael S. Conaway and Robert Montgom ery, at 750 E. 18th Ave., was entered and the clothes taken. The burglars forced the front door open to gain entrance to the apartment. Meanwhile an investigation by the sheriff's office into the theft of power and carpenter tools from northwest Eugene is continuing. The theft occurred sometime this past weekend from a house under construction in the Alva dore area. The tools, valued at $190, were the property of Mar shall Hjelte, 83 N. Adams St., Eugene. r 1 (AP Wlrephoto) Arnold Sadler, blind attorney, gets hunting license in Seattle store Wednes day as stunt to dramatize what he calls TJ i. a fault in Washington hunting applica liUni tions. Sadler says there's nothing in the law that says an applicant must be able Povmif t0 see store emPloves briefed in ad JT CIII11L vance that Sadler did not plan to use the license, issued it with only the usual questions. With Sadler is his dog, Hei di. Clerk is Mary Ellen Balzer. Indefinite Recess Called in NY Strike NEW YORK (UPD Contract talks between publishers of nine New York City newspapers and striking printers Thursday were in indefinite recess. A joint session Wednesday, the first since last week in the 34-day-old shutdown, between the International Typographical Union and the New York Pub lishers Assn. ended with nega tive reports from the principals and a federal mediator. 'I can't report any real prog ress, said Stephen 1. bchloss- Union Asks Recognition PORTLAND IB Recognition as bargaining agent on four sea going Army dredges was re quested Tuesday by the Seafar ers International Union, AFL CIO. T?nv Mprrpr nf San Francisco. reni-oconfinf thff KoflfarnrS. told the Portland District Army En gineers tnat wnue tne national Maritime Union has some signed membership cards, "we feel we represent most of the workers." The National Maritime Union, aln AFF-CIO. has not filed for recognition as agent for the dredge employes. Mercer sam mere are nnn . nFfiror pmnlnves elidible for membership on the dredges Biddlc, Davidson, j-acitic ana Harding. They currently are not repre sented by a union. Educator Named PORTLAND (UPD Richard Sullivan, president of Reed College, has been appointed to the executive board of the Col lege Retirement Equities Fund. The CREF is a nationwide re tirement Plan for college teach ers and staffs and the staffs of other educational and scientific institutions and organizations, LLP PD D QDZTTDCJ CD D SUNBEAM HAND MIXER GENERAL ELECTRIC HAND MIXER WESTINGHOUSE STEAM IRON Keg. lu.ya ro Your Choice 4Qt. Mirro-Matic PRESSURE COOKERS Ret. (Sorry. Limit 1) Table of CLOSEOUTS From 25c Reg. $21.95 Dominion Sandwich Toaster, WAFFLE IRON $1589 NO MONEY DOWN 110 W. Broodwoy Open .jj berg, a federal mediator who sat in on the talks. "I have ad journed them subject to my call. I have no idea when that will be." Bertram Powers, president of Local 6 of the ITU, saw less than no progress. "We're further apart than we were," he said. "We find the publishers are not yet ready to negotiate a con tract." In fact, Powers said, the pub lishers had presented a better, offer before the strike than the one now being made. In a "series of backward steps," he said, the publishers had demand ed surrender by the union of two provisions in the expired contract. These, he said, concerned the use of outside tape in newspaper plants and the ' bogus' rule, which provides for the setting of type not used in producing the paper. Amory Bradford, NYPA pres ident, confirmed tthat the pub lishers had asked for a reduc tion of "bogus" work and for the introduction of tape for au tomatic typesetting. Calling the strike situation "no better or no worse." Brad ford said the deadlock "can end only when the union agrees to a reasonable settlement which will allow all the newspapers to survive." A second craft union joined the printers Wednesday in the walkout. Members of New York Mailers Union No. 6. an affiliate of the ITU, voted 740-7 to go on strike. A third union, the New York Printing Pressmen's Union, con tinued joint talks with the pub lishers. Powers conceded that he felt "somewhat at a disad vantage" to have another union negotiating while he was strik ing. But, he said, "There is no break in the solid union front. We'll survive. I predict the unions will go on as long as we have to in order to get a con tract that meets the needs of the members." Reg. $29.95 CLUB $89 y each $8.95$4 95 & up While Supply Lasts Friday Nita 'Til 9 p.m. Dl 3-7746 Items Subject to Prior Sale Empire State Building Hit By 2nd Fire Blaze Causes Minor Damage NEW YORK Ufi The second smoldering fire in as many days brought firemen to the Empire State Building Thursday. They ripped out a section of a wall in a public hallway on the 31st floor to uncover and extinguish a fire in insulation. Thursday morning's fire ap parently was caused by a spark from Wednesday's blaze which ignited insulation around a water pipe. Fire officials said the insulation was "highly com bustible" and ordered the man agement to have it removed. A 24-hour fire guard was posted in. the mammoth struc ture. An attendant on the floor had found the wall hot. No one was evacuated from the building. A series of fires Wcdncsdav In the 102-story building the world's tallest burned out sev eral offices and delayed thous ands who work in the building. A carelessly thrown cigarette was tentatively blamed for the fire, which spread through a utility shaft that runs the height of the building. No injuries resulted from the blaze, during which night workers had to flee offices from as high as the 85th floor of the skyscraper. The fire marshal s office later advanced the "educated guess" that a workman's discarded cig arette fell on the felt-like cov ering of a cold water pipe that rises to the 85th floor through a utility shaft. The fire apparently smould ered for hours before develop ing into choking curtains of smoke. Rail Unions File Appeal WASHINGTON (UPD Five railroad brotherhoods have asked the Supreme Court to re verse a lower court ruling that would allow railroads to elimi nate "featherbedding." The-ruling was handed down last Nov. 28 by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chi cago. It would allow more than 200 railroads to make sweeping changes in work rules which have been followed for many years by engineers, firemen brakemcn and other employes. The appeal said tho lower court based its opinion on evi dence which did not appear in the brotherhoods' complaint and which was never at issue in the trial court. The appeal said the ruling also gives to management control over many areas which have traditionally been the sub ject of collective bargaining. The unions claimed rauroaas are required by the Railway La bor Act to deal with unions about changes in the carriers assignment of work, job content, crew consist, place oi worn, length of runs, merging of crafts or classes, abolition of crafts or classes, merger of seniority lists and abolition of jobs. Red Ban Reported TUNIS, Tunisia W The Tu nisian government has decided not to tolerate the Communist oarty in Tunisia, informed sources said Wednesday night. There was no official comment from tho government although rumors that the Communist party has- been banned have persisted for several days. 8 Pe. Set ALUM. $2395 Special Group Famous Brand WATCHES 25 to 50 OFF Special Group CHARMS, BRACELETS, JEWELRY 14K Sterling & Gold Filled Save 33 And More A special Group of DIAMOND RINGS SAVE 25 EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, By S.C. Governor Desegregation Orders Backed COLUMBIA, S.C. (UPD Gov. Ernest F. Hollings told the legis lature Wednesday in a farewell address which sparked a stand ing ovation that South Carolina must accept desegregation peace fully or be content with second class statehood. "We have all argued that the Supreme Court decision of May, 1954, is not the law of the land," said Hollings, a 41-year-old at torney. "But everyone must New Incident At Ole Miss OXFORD, Miss Un A new incident of minor violence at the University of Mississippi has been reported in the midst of a federal grand jury investigation into rioting on the school cam pus three months ago. William Jordan Temple was hit by flying glass Wednesday night after a soft drink bottle was thrown through a transom into his dormitory room. Tem ple once sat with James H. Meredith, the Negro who shat tered the university's segrega tion barrier, during a meal in the school cafeteria. Temple, a freshman from Washington, D.C., was hit on the forehead by flying glass but was not seriously hurt 1 Meredith ate in the cafeteria Wednesday night and university students, who all but ignored him for the past few months, renewed table-pounding demon- stations. Another group of stu dents collected outside, but Meredith left through a rear door for his dormitory. Meredith announced Monday he would leave the university after the current semester ends if the climate did not change. The grand Jury took testi mony from several . students Wednesday. 1 A AAA r.ol- fluistlr J.U,VW UCl VUi-i. Glimpse of Mona WASHINGTON (UPD At least 10,000 persons came to the Na tional Art Gallery Wednesday to view the Mona Lisa on its first public display in America, but most got only a 12-sccond glimpse of the famous smile. During the seven hours the gallery was open, officials count ed 10,233 visitors, who looked at the painting at the rata of 40 minute. Most probably got their best view of the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece from prints and postcards on sale at the gallery. Those viewing the venerable painting had to crane their necks and squint their eyes be cause of its unusual height on the gallery wall and the protec tive glass which reflected the glare of lighting. SPECIAL PURCHASE EXCLUSIVELY AT THE VACUUM CLEANER CLINIC ONLY k Over full horse motor .uct.on J -A- Paper throwowoy bags ond many other Hoover Features. Don't Woit, Sea It Today HOOVER CONVERTIBLE OFFERED TO YOU AT A NEW LOW PRICE ONLY PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED! EASY TERMS Pd!jtiP S l 5-6224 1 2695 WILLAMETTE j . - i i it Thurs., Jan. 10, 1963 Page SA agree that it is the fact of the land. Hollings' speech was in sharp contrast to Tuesday's goodbye address to the Alabama legisla ture by Gov. John Patterson. Patterson urged that Alabama, which with South Carolina are the only Southern states with no school integration, offer the fullest resistance to desegre gation and "never surrender." Hollings said that interposi tion, sovereignty, legal motions. and personal defiance all have been applied in opposition to the law of the land and all at tempts have failed. South Caro lina, he said, is running out of courts. If and when every legal rem edy has been exhausted, this General Assembly must make clear South Carolina's choice- government of laws rather than a government of men. said Hollings, who will be suc ceeded by former University of South Carolina President Don ald S. Russell. Even as Hollings spoke, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Ap peals in Alexandria, va was hearing arguments on a suit by Harvey Gantt, a Negro, to enter Clemson College later this month. The court took tho case, under advisement. As determined as we are, we of today must realize the lesson of 100 years ago and move on for the good of South Carolina and our United States," said Hollings. 'This should be done with dignity. It must be done with law and order. It is a hurdle that brings little progress to either side. But the failure to clear it will do us irreparable harm," he said. Plan Offered To Speed Legislation SALEM Ufl Rep. Clarence Barton. D Coouille. who will be l sneaker of the house in the legislative session starting next Monday, has proposed plan to speed the consideration of non- controversial Dills. Barton suggested a consent calendar procedure. This procedure would allow committee to place a bill on consent calendar, if it thought the bill was non-controversial.- It would remain there for three days. If any member had objections to putting it on tho consent calendar, the bill would be sent to the House floor for regular debate. 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