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o O Univ. of Oregon Library O High yesterday, 47 degree. Low last night, 34 degrees. Suntat today, 6:. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:1), PDT. T I I "U 0 II N EUGENE, OREGON THLTE IBUILILjETIN Partly 1 1 o u i y , ftw light theirs on Thursday. High temperatures, 65 to 70 degrees; laws, it to 41. Forecast Hi and Lo SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON 60th Year Twelve Pages Wednesday, October 9, 1963 Ten Cents No. 259 toward Flora moving antic, away from ULSo . Operation due mmmm jpg. 1 Ailment may end political life of Harold Macmillan I ii LONDON (UPI) Prime Min-1 ister Harold Macmillan, hard at work in a hospital bed, was re ported "quite comfortable today" despite a prostate gland ailment which may lead him to retire. The 69 - year - old Conservative leader "is extremely well and cheerful and is working from pa pers on his bed," Dr. Sir John Richardson said after seeing Macmillan this morning. The prime minister's son, Mau rice, said his father was "quite comfortable" after spending the night at King Edward VII Hospi tal. Engineers today attached a portable "scrambler" to Macmil lan's bedside telephone to enable him to carry on confidential gov ernment work. Foreign Secretary Lord Home and an aide arrived at the hospital late this morning carrying briefcases. Richardson said that If investi- Engle may not run for re-election WASHINGTON (UPI) Gov. Edmund G." Brown said Tuesday a decision must be made before Dec. 1, an whether ailing U.S. Sen. Clair Engle will be able to seek re-election. "There has to be a deadline," Brown said. "If Senator Engle is unable to make the fight, we'll have to select a candidate." Brown made the comments aft er conferring first with White House officials and then with the senator's wife. He apparently failed in efforts to get Mrs. Engle to make public the details of her husband's condition. Engle, a patient at Bethesda, Md., Naval Hospital, is under stood to be partially paralyzed and suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. But no definitive medical statement on his condi tion has been issued. Brown said Mrs. Engle had told him her husband was "improving" but revealed no further details. The Governor said he had re ceived reports earlier that Engle "just won't be able to make the fight." He said he had complied with a request by Mrs. Engle a month ago that he wait a month before considering a possible suc cessor to the Democratic senator. Brown said the time was now drawing near when any candidate for Engle's Senate seat must make his announcement and start planning his campaign. Before meeting with Mrs. Engle, Brown said he had discussed En gle's illness with presidential ad viser Larry O'Brien but not with President Kennedy. Oregon section of travel group is organized Oregon Chamber Executives at their recent meeting in Coos Bay formed an Oregon section of the Pacific Northwest Travel Associa tion, to promote travel activities within Oregon, Marion Cady, Bend Chamber of Commerce manager, reports. Cady attended the annual meet Ins of the OCE in Coos Bay. where he was elected second vice president for the coming year. Burford Wilkinson, Tilla mook, was named president. Francis Snodgrass, La Grande, is the retiring president. Dale Dunn, Oregon City, was the choice for first vice president. Some HO Oregon Chamber Ex ecutives attended the meeting Named lo head the new Oregon section of the travel group was Jack McMann. Grants Pass. From Coos Bay. Cady drove lo Klamath Falls, then joined the group that attended the Okano gan Cariboo Trail Association's annual convention in Reno, Nov. Jtse L. Yardley. Bend, was elected OCTA president. tUtrKK! W IWirWUTf OPORTO, Portugal (L'PI "-Police said today they had arreted 71-faor-ola' maa aa fateV ly flabhad fc if. . sus picio af ialtfaiity. T cij)i:'s gations being conducted into Mac- millan's condition were satisfac tory, the premier would be oper ated on Thursday morning. Macmillan May Retira The illness, although not consid ered serious in itself, added weight to speculation that Mac millan soon may retire. At the same time, it improved the position of Deputy Premier R. A. Butler, who became acting premier for the duration of Mac millan's incapacity. Butler was the favorite of ob servers speculating on a possible successor to Macmillan, and tak ing over the prime minister's du ties for such a length of time dur ing such a crucial political period was bound to strengthen his po sition. Two other party leaders. Sci ence Minister Lord Hailsham and Reginald Maudling, the chancel lor of the Exchequer, also had wide support Blow To Caraar The illness was a blow to Mac millan at an important time in his political career. For many months, he has fought back against demands by Labor and by Conservative ma vericks that he step down. The first attacks were based on Brit ain's failure to gain Common Market membership, its rising unemployment, and its defense policy controversies. Then, in the summer, came the Profumo scandal. When War Minister John Profumo's affair with callgirl Christine Keeler spread into a series of trials and security investigations, the de mands for Macmillan's resigna tion increased. But he continued to reject them. Now, with his political standing Improving, Macmillan was sud denly out of the race for a long period of time. Beating charges faced by three PORTLAND (UPD - Three young men were in jail today in connection with the beating of a Beaverton doctor on a Washington County road last week. Richard Yarbrough, 20; Har vesta Harris. 19. and Tiney Adams Jr., 19, all of Portland, were picked up by local police Tuesday following an investiga tion by Portland and Washington County authorities. Dr. Richard Bernard, 38. Bea verton, was on a hunting trip when he stopped to aid two men who flagged him down. The doc tor said they drove to a pickup truck which contained a third man and that they then beat him. Dr. Bernard was rendered un conscious, but later walked about two miles to find help. He was hospitalized several days in Port land. The doctor's station wagon and hunting rifle were found later in separate locations in Portland. Washington County authorities said the trio had been charged with assault w ith intent to kill and rohbery while armed with a dan gerous weapon with bail set at $15,000 each. All three are Negroes. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow-Jones closing stock aver ages: 30 industrial 739.83, off 4.07; 20 railroads 168.50, off 0.47; 15 utilities 139.03. off 0.32; 65 stocks 259.98, off 1.10. Sales today were about 5.52 mil lion compared with 4.92 million sliarcs Tuesday. Mme. Nhu claims U.S. plot to oust Diem regime NEW YORK lUPI'-Mmc. Ngo Dinh Nhu charged today that the United States Information Agency in South Viet Nam was involved in a plot to overthrow her brother-in-law's regime. "There will be an attempt to overthrow the government." the out-spoken Vietnamese first lady said, "but I can assure you it will nat succeed." In her first public address since coming to this country Mon day for a round of speaking en ymenLs, she said in a televi Bulletin offers pros, cons on fax referendum Tht Bulletin today publishes a list of th pros and cons of th coming October IS tax bill elec tion. Readers can find it on the editorial page. The discussion was prepared by the Oregon League of Wom en Voters, a nonpartisan organ ization. The arguments, both in favor of and against the tax vote are presented in an easy-to-read manner. For those readers who haven't made up their minds, or even those who have but seek additional information, the article on the editorial page is well worth reading. The Bulletin publishes this piece In the interests of a bet ter informed public. Trials of two whites begin in Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) - Separate trials were scheduled today for two white men charged with illegally possessing dyna mite. A former Ku Klux Klans man was convicted on a similar charge Tuesday. The two men. R E. Chambliss, 59, and John Hall, 36, were to appear before City Recorder J. Earl Langiier. Charles Cagle, 22, a heavy-set white supremacist, Tuesday re ceived a maximum $100 fine and 180 day sentence on conviction before Langner. He was released on appeal bond. A statement signed by Cagle was Introduced into evidence which said he helped Hall hide a case of dynamite removed from Chambliss' car on Sept. 4, the night Negro attorney Arthur Shores' home was bombed. King on Hand Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a "task force" of aides were in this racially-troubled city organ izing the Negro community for possible new demonstrations un less the city bows to two de mands issued Tuesday. King gave the city two weeks to hire 2a Negro policemen, and demanded that city officials meet face-to-face with Negro leaders to discuss hiring of Negro clerks, firemen and other civil service employes. Mayor Albert Boutwell did not reply directly to the demands, but the council released a state ment that "the possibility of the use of Negro policemen assigned to duties in Negro communities . . .have been widely discussed by city officials and the general pub lic for many years. The statement said the council would consider hiring Negro po lice "without fear of intimidation from any pressure group." Other Development Elsewhere in the nation: Plaquemine, La.: More than 500 Negro students boycotted a heavily - guarded Negro high school Tuesday in protest against the suspension of 35 students for leading a civil rights demonstra tion. UF drive over 70 per cent mark Descutes United Fund contri bution, aided by pledges from all employes of three new firms, have reached $24,669.02, it was announced this morning. The new figure represents more than 70 per cent of the $35,200 goal set this year. Helping to boost the figure were Oregon Trail Box, with 128 em ployes; Cascade Forest Pro ducts, with 13 employes, and i Safeway Stores, with 15 employ- 1 cs. sion interview that she wasn't sure whether the "plot" had offi cial sanction in Washington. But she indicated that the Unit ed Press International. Associated Press, New York Times and Voice of American might be in volved. "They just dislike us," she said. Demonstrators Picket Hotel While she was speaking, a dor en demonstrators picketed the hotel Waldorf-Astoria, several U.S. copters crash, burn in Viet Nam SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) 1 Two U.S. Marine Corps helicop ters carrying a total of 12 Ameri cans crashed and burned in the jungle highlands 325 miles north of Saigon. One military source said they may have been shot down by Communist ground fire, but other American military spokesmen said it appeared the helicopters collided in the air. The pilots may have been distracted by Commu nist groundfire in the area, the spokesman said. On the basis of preliminary re ports from rescue aircraft which flew over the scene, and were fired on by Red guerrillas, it ap peared that all 12 men died in the flaming crash. On Mercy Minion The two helicopters were on a mercy mission searching for a South Vietnamese plane piloted by an American Army captain when they crashed. J The captain is missing and be lieved dead. The helicopter disaster was the most serious incident involving Americans since the United States began pouring military aid into the anti-Communist fight in this Southeast Asian nation two years ago. If ell 13 men were killed, it would raise the toll of Americans who have died in battle in South Viet Nam to 124. Search planes sighted the wreckage of the two downed hel icopters and the crashed fighter bomber plane on the banks of the Thu Bon River this morning, only half a mile apart,, not far from the Laotian . border. . . There was no reported sign of life at either place. The area is heavily infested with Communist guerrillas and the search planes reported aiiey were fired on from the ground. Both helicopters were taking part in rescue operations in the rugged mountains near the Lao tian border where a Vietnamese Air Force T28 fighter bomber was shot down, apparently killing a U.S. Air Force captain and a Vietnamese observer. The spokesman said the Ameri cans aboard the helicopters in cluded four Marine officer pilots, five Marine enlisted crewmen, one Navy doctor and two Navy hospital corpsmcn. Injured driver rushed here after crash on U.S. 31 A California man was rushed to St. Charles Memorial Hospital this afternoon with serious injuries suffered when his pickup truck collided with a logging truck about six miles south of LaPine on High' way 31. The victim was identified as Henry A. Bloecher, Woodside, Calif. Bend police who transport- ed Bloecher by ambulance said he had to he pried out of his "pul- verized" pickup truck, which was j nicrcial short-term credits to any hauling two horses in a trailer j nation that has previously de when it struck the logging truck, faulted on a debt owed the Unit- Police said Bloecher is probably in his thirties. No other injuries were reported. Highway traffic, an officer said, was backed up in both directions for a considerable dis tance. MET AT AIRPORT ROME (UPI) Former Em press Soraya of Iran and Oscar- I winning Swiss actor Maxmilian Schell met at the Rome airport Tuesday night to fly to Frankfurt together. Schell arrived from London lo join Soraya before they boarded the flight for Germany, where she is to star in a film about Cather ine the Great of Russia. blocks away, where she was to address the Overseas Press Club. The demonstrators identified themselves as college students and marched behind police lines across the street from the hotel. They chanted, "Madame Nhu Pentagon puppet." and "No more Koreas. Bring the troops home." Mme. Nhu criticized American news correspondents in South Viet Nam. She said at one time the government had planned to sue six American newsmen for j "obstructing" police during a reb THE OLD AND THE NEW High wheel, used in early-day logging operations, formt artistic background tor Mrs. Gerald Jaques, all dressed up in a green and blue slightly flared plaid coat, and a cossaclc hat of man-made mouton. Mrs. Jaques Is one of the models who will appear in Central Oregon College scholarship benefit style show, Thursday evening at the Elks Temple. Bend Ladies of the Elks are spon soring the event for public. zsaomsm Approval expected sztxm Announcement due on wheat to USSR WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy was expected today to announce approval of a pro posed multimillion-dollar "one shot" sale of surplus U.S. wheat to the Soviet Union. The President's announcement may come at his news confer ence at 6 p.m. EDT. The confer ence originally was scheduled for 4 p.m. EDT. but the time was changed, possibly to coincide with the closing time of the West Coast commodity markets. Administration sources con firmed privately that potential sales to Russia and its satellites could reach about 275 million bushels of wheat. Ono source said Russia alone might take up to 130 million to 140 million bushels. Russia indicated to the U. S. government for the first time ear lier this week that it is interested in buying between $150 million and $200 million worth of grain. Gold or Dollars The prrxscd sale, which would Iw handled by private American rain traders, wmua no lor goiu or dollars. A 1934 law forbids ex tension of any but ordinary com- ed States. Senate Democratic Whip Hub ert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, who has favored such a sale, said the transaction might involve as much as 5 million tons, or about $375 million to $400 millon worth of wheat. But his total included possible grain purchases by Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bul garia. Canada announced Tuesday that Communist Bulgaria had agreed to purchase more than 11 million bushels of Canadian wheat in equal amounts over the next three years, and an addi tional 5.5 million bushels this crop year if Canada can supply el demonstration. "The Vietnamese government was requested to drop tile suit by the United States." Bhe said. "If we had obeyed the request, the government would have lost face. We felt wo should leave it to the Vietnamese court to decide." Denies Mast Arrests Mme. Nhu denied that the gov ernment had arrested "thousands of people." "We have arrested 10 rebel Buddhists," she said, adding that the others were detained and at ivTW "astir tr.jrxtfxjfznk vev .-i-rrajria2Barf it. '!1io administration was be lieved to have delayed a decision because of failure lo obtain bi partisan congressional support for a wheat sale to Russia. But Hum phrey said there were indications now of "broad support for a one shot wheat sale for cash or gold." Despite tho Minnesota Demo crat's claim a movo was started in tho Senate Tuesday to block the propo.sed wheat deal, at least until after Feb. 1, l4. Oregon man faces charge of abduction GUERNEVILLE, Calif. (UPD Police in northern California and Oregon today searched for the former husband of a Gucrncvillc woman who is charged with ab ducting their three children. Officers said Cathrine Hanlwrg. 30. and her husband. Richard. 28. were at home Monday night when the former husband, identified as Benjamin Rogers, 35, of Eugene, Ore., and a companion broke in to their home. Hanberg, an invalid confined lo a wheel chair, was knocked down and beaten. He and his wife were then bound and Rogers left with the children Stephen. 9, Wanda, 8, and David, 8 months, police said. Rogers and his companion, iden tified only as Harry, about 20, were armed with a rifle and a hunting knife. They were formally charged Tuesday with armed rob bery, felonious assault and child stealing. Mrs. Hanberg was divorced from Rogers Sept. 25 and mar ried to Hanberg in Reno two weeks ago. then released. "We keep only the agitators ami tliey have been very few," she said. "We cannot pretend to have unanimity in our country. There is opposition in every coun try (but) the opposition lias ii'it bwn put in jail in Viet Nam just because they have opposed. They are arrested if they are en gaged in subversive activities." Mme. Nhu said she and her husband have been made scape i goats by the United Slates. I "1 have always nagged my hus- o Musc overs awa7 concert here Monday Seventy musicians on two bus es, and $100,000 worth of equip ment on other vehicles, will ar rive in Bend Monday for an event that is expected to attract music lovers from all parts of Central Oregon. It will be the Portland Sym phony concert, to bo presented on the nieht of October 14 in the auditorium of the Bend Senior High School, under the direction of Jacques Singer, world-famous maestro. He is entering his sec ond season as director conduct or of Portland's 52 year old or chestra. Only one concert will be pre sented in Bend, and the sponsor ing Jaycecs are hopeful that the auditorium will be packed to ca pacity. The event is one of the most ambitious undertakings ever imnsored by the Bend young men. The 50 men and 20 women com prising the orchestra last season played to some 50.000 Portland residents. A two-hour concert will be presented in Bend, with clas sics by Handel, Tchaikovsky and Benjamin Britten to be fea tured. Singer has just returned from a new series of cultural triumphs during four appearances as guest conductor of Mexico City's Or chestra Sinfonica Nacional. In the post decade he has thrill ed audiences in Ruenos Aires, Florence, New York, Toronto, Lis bon, Lima, Tel Aviv and a dozen other capital cities. Tickets can be obtained from the Jaycees, at local music stores and the banks, or at the Bend Chamber of Commerce office. TO HOLD CONFERENCE WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy will hold a tele vised news conference at 6 p.m. EDT today. The conference originally had been scheduled for 4 p.m., but While House Press Secretary Pi erre Salinger said It was changed to 6 p.m. because Kennedy had "a lot of appointments." baud for years to stay away from the palace," she said. "He is be ing exploited by civil servants. He is there to help his brother. But ulien the United Slates hint ed that he get out, I said to him, 'You stay', because as long ts the United States government cannot tell you why you should got out, you should stay. Ulie New York Times cautioned MnJ-. Nhu today that American aid and support to her country "are not open-ended and will not contintfy ui(initely." of dead continuing to mount MIAMI (UPI) Hirrricana Flora's Caribbean death toll rose to more than 2,700 known fatali ties and another 6,500 were feared lost today as the storm finally moved toward the open Atlantic and away from the U.S. mainland. Radio reports, intercepted In Miami, added 105 known dead and 4,000 missing in eastern Cuba ; to previous reports of 2,500 dead and fears for 2,500 others in I Haiti and at least 112 other dead in Cuba. In its nine-day rampage through the Caribbean and across the southeastern Bahamas, the hurricane which may turn out to be the most deadly of the 20th Century, also claimed nearly 50 more lives in Tobago, Grenada, Jamaica and the Dominican Re public Villages Disappear A Cuban radio broadcast re ported this morning that "two en tire villages have disappeared,, washed away by the flood waters, and there is fear that 4,000 stu dents and workers have perished.' The villages were not identi fied. An earlier broadcast reported 100 coffee pickers drowned in Or- iente Provmce. Despite Cuba's plight after five days of steady pounding by the hurricane, Premior Fidel Castro turned down offers of aid from the American Red Cross. He called such offers from United Stales sources hypocritical. Although it may be weeks be fore the full extent of death and damage can be determined, the Miami Weather Bureau said dam age in Cuba alone would run into "several hundred millions of dol lars." Damage Totaled Haiti counted nearly $100 mil lion in damages. Weather forecasters said the storm, one of the deadliest of the 20th century, eventually would dis sipate in Uie ocean's expanse. Boasting 100 mile per hour winds in its center. Flora passed over the island of Mayaguana. where the United States has a missile tracking station, at 2 a.m. EDT. There were no immediate reports of damage to the island which was hard hit by hurricane Donna in 1960. Behind Flora lay what the weather bureau called in a pre liminary report the worst hurri cane devastation to Haiti and Cu ba "since the time Columbus dis covered the New World." Toll Might Dcuble Huitian Health Secretary Ger ald Philippoaux reported from Port-au-Prince Tuesday that 2,500 persons were dead or missing and that the toll of casualties "might double." He said cities had been swept away by Flora, which struck Haiti's southwestern Tibur on peninsula last Thursday night with 150 to 200 mile-an-hour winds. In Cuba, at least 112 were re ported dead from the unprece dented four - day pounding Flora delivered before breaking away Tuesday morning on an east northeast course into the Baham- There were 48 other casualties In Jamaica, the Dominican Re public, on the islands of Tobago and Grenada, and at Miami Beach, where a college student was presumed drowned in heavy surf flung against the south Flor ida coast in a two-day buffeting of Flora's fringe gales. Her mounting death toll ranked Flora with the 1900 hurricane which killed 6.000 in Galveston, Tex., among the century's worst storms in this part of the world. The Miami Weather Bureau said damage in Cuba probably would run into "several hundred millions of dollars." Property damage in Haiti was estimated at nearly $100 million. Light showers seen for area A few light showers are in pros pect for Central Oregon on Thursday, the district weather forecast indicates. West of the Cascades there will be consider able rain, probably reaching much as one inch, the forecast adds. Tho fire weather forecast indi cates a possibility of me light showers in the Cascades this eve ning or tonight. Temperatures will be mild, with highs of from 65 to 70 expected and lows to be around 38 degrees. o