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LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER.
96th Year, No. 180
SEVEN SECTIONS 72 PAGES
Eugene, Oregon, April 21, 1963
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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(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
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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.
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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.
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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