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Sunday Edition Showers Weather Report, Page UA LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. 96th Year, No. 180 SEVEN SECTIONS 72 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, April 21, 1963 Second Class Posts m Paid at Eugene, Oregon Sunday, .15 Cents L S Peril u. s. This Figures Fires Sweep Dry East aos purs Into Action WASHINGTON W) President Kennedy launched an urgent diplomatic salvage operation Saturday to save neutral Laos from collapsing under Red pressure. Kennedy held a strategy session of the National Security Council on Laos amid reports that militarily superior Communist forces are wiping out positions held by neutralist Gen. Kong Le. Kennedy set a followup meeting of the top U.S. ' 1 House Okays Anti-Pollution Enforcement SALEM lit) The Oregon House of Representatives voted unanimously Saturdav to give the State Sanitary Authority the power to stop pollution of water and air. The bill goes to Gov. Mark 0. Hatfield, who strongly urged the Legislature to pass it. Under the bill, the Sanitary Authority gets the right to bring suits in court to stop threatened or existing water and air pollu tion. A court hearing would be given. . Rep. James A. Redden, D Medford, called the bill one of the most important in the Legis lature and said: "Oregon has come to the point where we have to stop poisoning our streams and our air. - But Rep. Richard Kennedy, D-Eucene. oDiccica mat me anti-pollution laws don't apply to farmers. "In the Eugene-Springfield area," he- said, "there is smog at certain times of the year be cause of agricultural burning. Business and industry are spending millions of dollars to stop pollution, yet we exempt the farmers. "We should do something about this next session." Saturday was the 97th day of the Legislature, and it was the first Saturday session. House Speaker Clarence Bar ton, a Democrat, said it was ' necessary to allow consideration of the 26 bills on the calendar. But Republicans said the real ; reason was to enable the Demo ; rats to attend a statewide 1 workshop sponsored here by their party, 5 - tr j 'Mi . n VXZ3XXmM tiX'T. imrr Rain Mirror strategy group for Monday, when the admittedly grave Laos situation will be con sidered again. After the council meeting it was announced that: 1. Secretary of State Dean Rusk promptly called to the State Department the ambas sadors of India, Canada and Poland the members of the three-nation International Con trol Commission which is sup posed to police last year's Gen eva agreement for an indepen dent, neutral Laos. 2. Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman was to leave Sunday for Paris and London to talk with high government officials. 3. The U.S. ambassador to Thailand is cutting short his current Washington visit for consultation and is immediately returning to Bangkok. Thailand, a U.S. ally and a neighbor of Laos, was where Kennedy sent several thousand U.S. troops last year after the Reds threat ened Laos. There was no indication that U.S. military intervention or a show of force was decided on at the White House meeting. Officials declined to rule out the possibility of a U.S. military move later, however. According to the U.S. analy- s. the Communist Pathet Lao wit i an undetermined amount of outs'de Red aid, primarily from neighboring North Viet Nam, is mishing hard to eliminate the Kong Le forces and thus rnllansa the fragile three-sided government headed by neutral ist Premier Souvanna Phouma. The Geneva agreement pro vides for a Laotian government composed of right-wing, center and left-wing tactions, con tinued existence of the center, neutralist erouo is necessary in the U.S. view to prevent col lapse. The United States is trying to apply diplomatic pressure to stem the Communist advance, both by persuading the Rus sians to use their influence and t- goad the control commission into a more active role. Reflections on the Eugene scene these days show steady progress toward completion of the new $2 4 million city hall, with the circular steel framework of the future council By JOHN O. KOEHLER Of the Associated Press BERLIN How do you congratulate your wife on her birthday? With an especially thoughtful kiss in the morn ing? With a bouquet of roses? With a new dress? If you have been married for at least 25 years, one can assume that you like your wife and you'd do at least one of these. But East Germany's Com munist Party boss, Walter Ulbricht, does it better. His wife, Lotto, turned 60 Friday and got a present that was out of this (Western) world the Fatherland's Medal of Merit in gold. And, of course, her spade bearded husband congratu lated her, too. But not in per son. He sent her a letter, delivered by State Council Secretary Otto Gotsche. "When you were 18 you be came a member of the Com munist Party of Germany," the letter said. "Youth organ ization and party gave you responsible tasks because of your untiring and active work." It said she had been one of those "activists" who brought lifo back to the German peo ple after Hitler's defeat. "You, Dear Comrade Lotte, have since been busy in many leading functions of the party full of optimism -and enthusi asm," Ulbricht told his wife. "Because of your rich experi ence and because of your de votion, you have helped to establish the first workers and peasants state in the history of our people." The East German news papers gave much space to the text of this letter. The Berliner Zeitunn's story was probably the most revealing as to the Communists' division of family and state. The newspaper said Mrs. Ulbricht was congratulated by the "First secretary of the Central Committee of the So cialist (Communist) Unity Party and the chairman of the state Council, waiter ui- bricht." There was no mention of the fact that he also is her husband. INSIDE TODAY Editorials .- 10A Sports - Sec. B Books 6B Classified Sec. C Theaters 20 TV Previews 4D Births 50 Arts -2. BE Women's News 3, 4E Drama 7E Camera "E Home and Garden ...10, HE fvSSf!' 'SMI:-'. '.!..' I 1 i? -;-';-1- ; r i"--- ---"r? v .-r;;.' f (AP Wircpholo) ACADEMIC GARB President Kennedy wore a cap and gown Saturday as he took part in the Centennial Convocation of Boston College. JFK Lauds Encyclical NEWTON, Mass. Ml Presi dent Kennedy said Saturday Pope John XXIll's encyclical, Peace on Earth in its close ness to statements of men of other faiths, "shows we are learning to talk a language of progress and peace across the barriers of sect and creed." The President, in his first nublic comment on the Pope's message, sam mat "as a uiino lic 1 am proud of it and as an American I have learned Irom it." . Kennedy spoke in his home stale at a centennial convoca tion at Boston College. freshman U.S. senator, he had received an honorary degree from the school. "In its penetrating analysts of today's great problems of social welfare and human rights of disarmament, international order and peace that docu ment surely shows that on the basis of one great faith and its tradition there can be developed counsel on public affairs that of value to all men and women of good will," he said. Kennedy said It adds to tne impact of the document that "it closely matches notable ex pressions of conviction and as piration from churchmen of other faiths as in recent docu ments of the World Council of Churches and from outstand ing world citizens with no ec clesiastical standing. chambers rising above the tons of concrete going into the major civic project. The building Is to be completed early in 1964. i. , 4 Nixon Writes A Postscript WASHINGTON IUPD Rich ard M. ' Nixon wrote a post script Saturday to last No vember's embittered farewall news conference in which he criticized the press and said he was no longer available to be kicked around. He told the American Soci ety of Newspaper Editors that he had spent 16 years in the political arena, enjoyed his contacts-with newsmen, never complained about a story or canceled a newspaper sub scription. However, he said he had al ways agreed with former President Truman's remark, "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Ho said he was "out of the kitch en" as a result of his defeat in the California guberna torial election Nov. 7 and had decided to "return some of the heat." Nixon added that he had meant what he said but now wanted to add to his remarks. He said ho had written dis patches for newspapers and a book sinco his 1960 presi dential election defeat and had learned that "nothing equals the pressure of having to meet a deadline." If ho were proposing a toast, he said, he would offer it to "the working press, 'ho most underpaid, skilled crafts men in America." Picket Action Called Unjust By ASSOCIATED PRESS Pickets across the nation and in Canada on Saturday marched in" front of stores in a aemon stration against the segregated operation in Blrmingnam, ah.. of variety stores by four na tional chains. The number of pickets rangca from a few in some areas to as many as 1,200 In New York City. Comments on tne demonstra tions by the chain otnciais varied from protests that the action was unjust to claims the pickets in Canada were "making fools of themselves." Picketed were the retail out lets of the F. W. Woolwortn, S. H. Kress, H. L. Green and J. J. Newberry stores. There wcro no reports of In cidents at any of tho picketing sites and police said no moves were made anywhere to slop customers from entering stores. I IUf later-Guard photo or Mlrko pnnorl aal (AP Wlrophoto) WANTS DECISION Richard Nixon called Sat urday for a "command decision" by President Kennedy to force the So viets to abandon their Cuban beachhead. Called No Surprise I Men In the Lane Ooun- j ty industry said last week they were not surprised by the announcement of Georgia-Pacific Corp. that it will permanently close Us Springfield sawmill. . TVinv described this mill m fittlnn a category that i unnaara to be among the I most vulnerable under the conditions of today's lum-- h ... r. ber market. They predicted that In the future other sawnuiis In this area will bo shut ting their doors. But they accompanied tnis oy ex- pectauons ui vuiiii successful operation of K i rnro of modern, cf- W i ficient mills meeting mar- p 1 kct conditions and of fur- h t thcr growth in the produc & 5 tion of plywood and other g I kinds of wood products. -J No ono yet has prcciso K 1 information on how many n of tho 214 sawmill cm- .1 ploycs will movo to other p $ G-P operations, or how p 1 difficult it will be for tho ij. i remaining men to find y. ' work elsewhere. j) "j Elaboration of theso I: Sj points is .made on page i 5A. Sunday Last Circus Day Final performance of this year's Ken Jensen Optimist Club circus will be today at 2 p.m. at the Lane County Fairgrounds. Tickets for tho two-hour show will go on sate at the fairgrounds an hour beforo the show begins. Adult admis sion is $1.50, and high school student admission, $1. Chil dren 14 and younger will be admitted for 50 cents. There are no reserved scats. Seven Ponies Electrocuted Seven Shetland ponies, be- InnDine- to the Ken Jensen rirriin Comnaiiv. were electro cuted Saturday evening at the Lane County fairgrounds. Firemen said the ponies, be ing used at the Optimist Club sponsored shows, were standing In middles oi water ana cnaincu m larac trailer containing an elephant. The trailer had a 110 volt wire plugged in and it ap narpntlv shorted across the metal trailer and grounded through the ponies. An eighth pony, standing on dry hay. did not die. Firemen answered the call at 7:20 p.m. King Released After Eight Days BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Ul The Rev. Martin Luther King was released from city Saturday, eight days aftrr I was arretted while leading desegregation march In racially troubled city. Kin and another r.egro inie gration leader, the Rev. Ralph I). Abernathy, were relcaned at I 12:30 p.m., about an hour alter I 18 Negroes were arrested In 'downtown racial demonstrations. 1 Hundreds Homeless All Along Coast By ASSOCIATED PRESS . Fires in a windswept, rain-shy belt from Maine to Virginia left hundreds of persons homeless Saturday and caused damage running into the millions of dollars. New Jersey state officials still have not contirmeo a death. Known injuries Generally were minor and confined mostly to the men fighting the by high winds wnicn Degan to ease on during me nigni. Early assessments of the fiery toll showed over 100 houses destroyed in New Jersey, 100 buildings burned on Staten island, in.y., and nan a square nine oi too niaino textile city of Biddeford in ashes. The winds, acting as bellows, turned a series of grass fires into uncontrollable conflagrations on Staten Island, taxing the abilities of the i New York City Fire De. partment. Alter a nours oi niuiupie alarm blazes, as the wind tossed embers from one firo to start another, city officials declared the situation "pretty much un der control." About 75 Staten Island fam ilies lost their homes. The Biddeford firo threatened to destroy the entiro northern section of the city before the combined efforts of 13 firo de partments fouRht tho flames to a standstill, Bcnina, in Bancs, were nine of tho 10 buildings of a lumber and building materials plant where the fire broke out, 18 tenement nouses ana business building. 1 . Saved Cat, Plea Mnrlnrta Giinontt described .v.. ...nia tnnsd of tbe flames' 1 ! geiunt reur m lunch when a man yeuea, ui out. 1 just grauuwu mj , out I went." sne nu uoi sons managed to save only a pet . i ...... f..cKlo hfikea nies. ... hi frashlv baked pies. Biddeford Asst. Fire Chief b.i flnrlpnov estimatea mo 4 au. ' ' . . i damage wouw weu .exemu. mit hod. . " Now Jersey's fires, concen trated mostly in shore area nn,miii. burned thousanas ni ... nr woods and grasslands, as well as over 100 homos and Industrial sites. j Co i era from PI. vix mm sailors from Lakcnurst navai a i. sinilnn. with bulldozers, fought a blazo along a 10-mile front in Ocean County. in nt tho most destructive of the fires roaring through the tinder-box forests in virK" burned over 2,500 acres in King George County. Military person nel and civilian volunteers helped In tho fight. At least nine separate brush fires, somo destroying and threatening homes, plagued Long Island firemen throughout the day and night. Unable to Respond Staten Island called upon New Jersey lor assistance also, but the ttato was unanio to re spond because of us own urea, inrf Nnw York City sent two fircboals to Bayonne, NJ., to haiiln flames in a waterfront nnull fnrlnrv. I"""" ..- '-: , ti ,!,. Meantime, firemen m lyn fought a plant firo In which ..ni,.,iing nxveen tanks and 1 . ... m Wind gUStS rOCKClCQ llio immo in unrv itrucluro in a twu- hinir rp The plant ami tu ,..v,, hiiilillnva burned down Maryland authorities rcportcu that forest and brush fires were burning in all 23 counucs ex cept Alleghany and (larrctt. Knur iim Frienasnip iumi iinnl Airnort. about 10 miles south of Baltimore, lo rcs were reported. Bethel Water On Annexation Set Monday, Residents of the Bethel Water District and of tho area directly north will vote at two locations Monday on in annexation pro posal that would add about three louare miles to tho district. Polling places at tho Bethel fire station and the Irving fire taiion will he open from 8 a m. to 8 p.m., according 10 amm-i hoard Chairman Kenneth Kohncn. t'rnnoied for annexation is a largpiv industrial area which presently depends on wens tor its water supply. It includes hnnt ituarler of tho Irving Jr. Jail Vir District, which would he a combined with the Bethel Fire District if annexation is ap this proved. Bond Imue Planned Marvin licndrlckson, mperin tendent of the Bethel Water of the present Irving Fire Dis- drainage and street lighting for trict would receive fire protec.iti users. hundreds of blazes fanned overnment n Jordan Collapses AMMAN, Jordan Wt Prime Minister Samir Rifal resigned Saturday night In the midst ot violent popular demonstration! demanding that Jordan join tna budding union of Egypt, Iraq. and Syria King Hussein accepted tna resignation and asked Rifal to continua In ottic on a caw taker basis untU a new govern ment la formed.-, ' . Tho law oi Hilars lova. meat was walaA in. a Pull mentary aeoaia in wmuu -members In the 80-eat body rose and attacked his policies. Most of those opposing Rifal spoke in favor of Jordan's Join Ing the proposed expanded I version OI rresmrui . i AMc, Naer., United Arab Re Duhlie. King Hussein named Rifai'a sovernment less than a month ago in u move seen as making Jordan mora favorably disposed toward tho currents of Arab unity sweeping out of tbe Cairo talks of Egypt, Syria and Iraq. But speaker after speaker de clared Itifal's government wa ill equipped to deal with the problems of Arab unity. . Troops ringed tho Parliament Building during the dobato. The government had called out desert troop and police earlier In tho dav and ordered an emergency curfew In Jerusalem to quell the pro-Nasser demon strations. Rifal told Parliament Israel was massing troops at ma frontier lino In tho Jerusalem area, raising Jordanian fears that Israel might try to ibko aa vantago of any rovolt Insldo, Jordan. However, an Israeli spokesman called the reports ot Israeli troops massing wnoiiy unfounded. Numerous Obstacles Jordan borders Iraq and Syria, two of tho three regions set to make up the new uiiro- lcd federation expected to come Into being sometime this sum mer. But thcro are numcroui obstacles to Jordan's participa tion In tho new federation under its present government. Cairo Radio often has ex horted Jordanians to overthrow their monarchy, and Ilussein would bo expected to be less than warm toward tho Iraqi leaders who helped ovcrthrow i and kill his cousin. King Faisal I II, In 1958. District Vote tion by contract with the new firo district. If Monday's volo is favorable, tho district plans to seek approv. al for a $300,000 bond issue to finance water lines to serve the new area, licndrlckson said about Ti miles of water main would be necessary. No Material Increase Al a nublic meeting two weeks ago, licndrlckson said the bond issue, which must be ap proved In a separate election, would not materially raise uui present tax rate." Tho proposed annexation area be is bounded roughly oy an ex tension of the present boundary on the weit and by the South ern Pacific mainline tracks on the east. The northern bound ary Is 500 feet north of Awbrey Lane and parallels that street. The district furnishes water service. I re protection, iuric
