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Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGON .V Korth quits following controversy over carrier See ttory col. 1 The Kulijetin SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON Few showers tonight in Con FnrPffKt ,ra' Oregon country. High rUICbUil temperatures Tuesday, tO-45; lows, 42-48. High yesterday, M degrees. Low last night, 50 degrees. Sunset today, 4:24. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:1, PDT. Hi and Lo 60th Year Ten Pages Monday, October 14, 1963 Ten Cents No. 263 Paul H. Nitze to succeed as Navy head WASHINGTON (UPI) -Navy Secretary Fred Korth resigned today after a series of differ ences with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, climaxed by McNamara's rejection of Navy proposals lo build a new nuclear- powered aircraft car rier. Ill aillllfUIII-IIIK IU1 III 3 1 Olg I nation effectivi Nov. 1, the White House said the top Navy civilian post would be taken over by Paul H. Nitze, a long time State Department and De fense Department expert on in ternational affairs. Nitze is now assistant defense ; secretary for international se curity affairs and will yield that post to his deputy, William P. Bundy. The latter is a brother of President Kennedy's assis tant for national security af fairs, McGeorge Bundy. Korth's letter of resignation was dated last Friday, two days after McNamara notified the Navy that he had turned down a proposal to build a second nuclear-powered carrier for the U. S. fleets. McNamara ruled, instead, in favor of a new con ventionally powered flattop. On Friday, Korth prevailed on the defense chief to take one more look at the Navy's case for an atomic carrier. The Defense Department thereupon took the position that no final decision on the proposed ship had yet been taken. The carrier controversy pro vided dramatic timing for a decision that Korth, a former Fort Worth, Tex., banker had been contemplating for some weeks. In his letter of resigna tion to President Kennedy, Korth cited "pressing private affairs" as the reason for quit ting. But he had considered Mc Namara's proposals for a mili tary pay increase to be inade quate, and had objected to the elimination of overseas pay for thousands of enlisted men. He also favored a stronger program than the Pentagon would support for replacing of obsolescent warships. Korth was among Defense Department officials who fig ured in the explosive Senate in vestigation of the TFX war plane contract award. The President, in a "Dear Fred" letter, praised Korth for his "real contribution to the ad vancement of United States na tional security interests." He asserted: "The nation Is in your debt for your many years of public service, including this last pe riod of almost two years when you have worked so devotedly "to strengthen the United States Navy." Today's paper set in easier to read type Today's Bulletin, if you haven't already noticed, is easier to read. This is because of a new, larger, and more "airy" type purchased recently. The type is a nine point Corona and has wider characters than the previous Corona type which appeared in The Bulle tin. Readership studies have shown that this new type makes for easier and speed ier reading by all members of the family. This is another step in The Bulletin's continuing efforts to provide the best all-around newspaper possible. We hope that your reading has been made easier. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 741.84, up 08; 20 railroads 169.22, off 0.17; 15 utilities 138.62, off 0.51, and 65 Stocks 260.49, Oft 0.23. Salpi todav were about 4.27 million shares compared with j launched, they spoke to com 4.74 million shares Friday. Iparatively similar audiences on gon voters fi Wafer bond under way af Redmond REDMOND Residents of the City of Redmond are cast ing their votes today on a $300, 000 water bond issue. The polls will be open until 8 o'clock tonight at the city hall. If approved, the funds will be used to construct a new reser voir east of the COI canal near Antler and Canal Boulevard. There also would be an auto matic pumping station and some 2,000 feet of 14-inch water . 4t . , . . . n to industrial area The additional storage would enable the city to maintain a constant pressure of 35 pounds the year around, and make it possible for mills to install automatic sprinkler systems for fire con'"' Convoys moving along Autobahn without trouble BERLIN (UPI) Three U.S. Army convoys sped along the Autobahn from this cold war capital to West Germany today without challenge from Soviet control olficers who last week held up one group of trucks and men for 52 hours. iwo Aii tne convoys were small, regular supply groups from the U.S. Army garrison here. But the third included 141 men in 26 vehicles. All three were cleared at both ends of the 110-mile highway between this divided city and West Germany "without trou ble," an Army spokesman said. The Soviet control officers made no move to repeat their last week's challenge to U. S. rights to move convoys over the Autobahn. They had held one U.S. con voy for 15 hours and another for a total of 52 hours at the checkpoints last week in a dis pute which flared up to interna tional proportions and an armed show of strength. The Russians finally backed off their demand that the troops in the blocked convoys get out and be counted. 'Troubador wins championship fitle on weekend "Musicland's Troubador," the 20-month-old basset hound mas cot of the Redmond Kiwanis Club, can now put the word champion before his name. "Troubador" won two b i g shows in California over the weekend to pick up five points and complete the 15 points he needed lor championship rat in?. The Bend basset, owned by Al and Helen Weeks, picked up two points at the Yuba City show on Saturday. Sunday he completed his championship as he went best of winners at the Sacramento show that was held on the Cal ifornia state fairgrounds. In addition to the winning points, Troubador, who was shown by Al Weeks, picked up eight ribbon awards and five trophies. Western Republicans ponder popularity F.lif.F.NF. (UPI) Western! Republicans todav pondered the outcome of a one-day popularity contest between the two leading r-nntPn.Hcrs for the too GOP do- j lineal prize oi ihm me presi dential nomination. The two front-runners Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York and Son. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. missed a face-to-face confrontation at a weekend Western Republican conference by 45 minutes. But, for the first time since . their unofficial campaigns were 'The King' returns to B'ham crisis BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (UPI) Integration leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Fred Shut tlesworth return here today for a showdown with city officials on their demands for more de segregation. The two Negro leaders who led the massive racial demon strations here that exploded into violence and led to more than 2,500 arrests, issued an ul timatum last week that 25 Ne gro policemen must be hired by next Tuesday. They vowed to lead the Ne gro community in more and bigger demonstrations if their demands are not met. Both King and Shuttlesworth have emphasized, however, that employment of the Negro po licemen is only the first step. They also demanded "face-to-face" negotiations between Ne gro leaders and the city coun cil to arrange better job oppor tunities for Negroes in other areas of government. To Appear ON TV Gov. George Wallace was to appear on local television late today and was expected to dis cuss the racial situation and hold a news conference. The Community Affairs Com mittee on Human Relations, composed of 14 whites and nine Negroes, adopted a resolution Friday urging Mayor Albert Boutwell to change the city's policy of hiring only white po licemen. Many of the city's most influential business and civic leaders previously had made the same recommenda tion. Earlier the mayor said he would not answer the King and Shuttlesworth demand but Sat urday a spokesman announced Boutwell was considering the committee recommendation. Clinton, La.: At least 43 pick ets were arrested during the weekend while protesting segre gation customs in stores. Most of the arrests came Saturday, but four members of the Con gress of Racial Equality (CORE) were arrested Sunday. Chicago: Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy told an audience in Chicago Sunday that the ad ministration's civil rights legis lation "has become an article of faith, testing whether white Americans can put aside sec tional and political differences to meet racial problems. . . . He said the "whole nation will be the loser" if Congress rejects the measure. Greensboro, N.C.: About 200 Negroes paraded before a seg regated theater Sunday night. The demonstration was orderly and there were no arrests. Sign up planned by Rifle juniors Bovs and girls wishing to join or renew membership in the Bend Junior Rifle Club should attend 7 p.m. sessions either Wednesday or Thursday at the indoor range on W. 16th and Newport. Age limits are 12-18 years, and prospective members should bring $3 to cover regis tration fees. Guns and targets are furnished by the club. In structions will be given until next May. the same day in the same place. Rockefeller picked the confer- ence to challenge Goldwater to i a series of debates on the vital issues" of next year's political campaign. Goldwater, after first appear ing to grant a provisional ac ceptance, then rejected Rocke feller's proposal outright. But both agreed on this: Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who lost in a bid for the presidency by 119,000 votes in I960, is trying to get a second chance against President Ken decide tax innieaisiioir Tuesdaif- if D MAESTRO JACQUES SINGER Just bacV from Mexico, wher he was a guest conductor of the national orchestra, Jacques Singer, conductor-music director, will lead his Portland Sym phony Orchestra in a two-hour concert here tonight, at the Bend Senior High School audi torium. The concert will start at 8 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door. Symphony concert due tonight J A dynamic, dark-haired, hard working Maestro is coming to town this evening with a 70 member orchestra. He is Jacques Singer, conduc tor - music director of the Port land Symphony orchestra, which will be presented in a two-hour concert tonight at the Bend Senior High School audi torium, under auspices of the Bend Junior Chamber of Com merce, at 8 p.m. Tickets will be available at Madras man shot in gun accident Special to The Bulletin REDMOND A Madras res ident. Frank Morgan, 39, was brought to the Redmond Dis trict Hospital last night for emergency surgery for a gun shot wound in the abdomen, re sult of an accident. Tne bullet was from a .25 cal iber rifle. Morgan was brought to the hospital in the Redmond ambu lance. Details of the accident were not immediately avail able. RATHER SEE RACE LONDON (UPI) The Brit ish Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) said today it received telephone calls from 600 protesting view ers after it cancelled its tele cast of the 2:30 horse race Sat urday afternoon to broadcast Deputy Prime Minister R. A. Butler's speech from the Con servative party conference in Blackpool. Republicans from 13 western states, including Alaska and Hawaii, attended the three day conference, starting Friday and ending Sunday, There appeared to be no gen eral consensus on who won the popularity contest. Rockefeller addressed 7,500 listeners at one public session a noon appear ance at the 10,000 capacity Mc Arthur court. Goldwater, who spoke In the same place s 1 x hours later, had an audience estimated at 8,5001,000 more but the hour was to his advant age He spoke informally with another group later at theJjne Q p.m., BSHS auditorium mmmmigmmmmsmq the door. Singer and his orchestra will visit Bend on the symphony's first upstate swing in recent years. The musicians appeared before capacity audiences Sat urday night in Pendleton, and last night in The Dalles. The musicians are expected to reach Bend this afternoon about 4 o'clock, and will stay at the Pilot Butte Inn. Here for tonight's concert will be music lovers from all parts Castro reports Hurricane Flora took lives of over 1000 Cubans HAVANA (UPI) - Premier Fidel Castro announced over the weekend that Hurricane Flora killed more than 1,000 Cu bans and caused damage esti mated at hundreds of millions of dollars. In a communique published here, Caslro charged that "en emies o( the people" are rejoic ing at the plight of tens of thou sands of peasants left homeless and destitute by the disaster. He promised government help to hurricane victims and said his regime will rebuild every thing that was destroyed during the five days the hurricane lashed Cuba. Caslro, who returned Satur day from a tour of the disaster area, said central Oriente Prov ince was flonHed over a zone 25 to 50 miles wide. He said flood waters rose suddenly to unprec edented heights, bringing devas I County fairgrounds. Both sides claimed victory. Hut Oregon Gov. Mark Hat field, often mentioned as a vice presidential possibility, said Rockefeller "regained some of his lost ground." He saiu Goldwater "remained strong in Oregon with avid fol lowers." "There was no dark horse talk," he added. "The Nixon references evoked no response hut he remained a distinct dead lock possibility. It appears to me this was tlK dress retiear sal" Jn i 45-minute session Vfth of Central Oregon. Tonight's ap pearance of the Portland Sym phony Orchestra in Bend will be the only one scheduled for the region. Tonight, the dynamic Maestro will lead his proficient ensem ble through a demanding con cert of works by Handel, Tchaikovsky and Benjamin Britten, without any score on the podium. Maestro Singer has memor ized his music. tation and death to entire com munities. "Indescribable . . . suffering took place," Castro said. "En tire families sought refuge in trees or on the roofs of houses where they were not to tally covered. Others perished. "Thousands of houses were de stroyed. Tens of thousands of families of peasants and farm workers lost all their belong ings, including crops." Castro said the floods carried an ay livestock and destroyed streets, highways and railway lines. He said the flood drove 150, 000 persons from their homes in Oriente Province alone. "Extra ordinary efforts" by revolution ary (neighborhood spy) commit tees and other agencies prevent ed the death toll from mounting into the tens of thousands, Cas tro said. only a handful of delegates be fore adjourning the conference Sunday the Republicans adopted a series of resolutions attacking the Kennedy administration's domestic and foreign policies. They Included a compromise civil rights resolution condemn ing "exploitation of individual human dignity for political pur poses'an apparent reference to Kennedy's civil rights pro gram. Another resolution urged Con gress to pass a federal income tax reduction combined with a limit on federal expenditures. O) Unofficial polls give indication of defeat of controversial bill By Zan Stark UPI Staff Writer SALEM (UPD-Oregon voters I today were urged to go to the polls Tuesday to determine the future of the 1963 legislature $60 million tax increase measure. Gov. Mark Hatfield, who is spearheading the drive to sal vage the tax bill, urged Ore gonians to ballot on the meas ure. But he had no last minute statement on the controversial issue. "All has already been said that can be said," Hatfield told United Press International. Unofficial polls from through out the state indicated the voters will reject the tax hike the first enacted by the legis lature since the 1955 surtax. The controversial measure eliminates the federal deduction and increases state personal in come tax rates about 28 per cent. 400,000 Turnout Likely Polls open at 8 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. More than 750,000 voters are registered, and a turnout of 400,000 is expected. There are 3,261 polling places. Election day is a state legal holiday, and state and county offices will be closed Tuesday. If tha measure is turned down, Immediate cutbacks in some state services are expect ed. A special session of the legis lature probably would be called for early In November. The last special session of the legislature was called in t h e fall of 1957 to repeal the 1955 tax increase. There have been 11 special sessions in the state's history, including two called in 1933. Because education gets more than half of the state's $404 mil lion general fund budget, educators have been leading the battle to salvage the tax meas ure. Chancellor of Higher Educa tion Roy Lieuallen urged voters to keep an open door to educa tional opportunity on all levels of schooling. I implore those voters wno recognize the great importance of a yes vote to go to the polls Tuesday. Every responsible vot er must realize that his yes vole is urgently needed," he said. Climaxed Stormy Session The legislature's adoption of the tax increase measure clim axed a bitter 141-day session the longest in the state's history. Hatfield allowed the measure to become law without his sig nature. He said he didn t ap- State, county offices to close All state and county offices in Central Oregon will be clos ed Tuesday. The occasion will be election day, and state law specifies that the offices be closed when elections are held. State institutions to be closed will include liquor stores of the area. In Bend, the city office will remain open, and around town it will be business as usual. contest' A third resolution called for action by the state to provide equal educational opportunities. If they do not, the resolution said, they face "the Inevitable pressure for federal aid." The conference lashed out at Kennedy's policies in latin America and accused the ad ministration of mishandling for eign affairs in Cuba and South Viet Nam. J. Edmund Converse, Nevada national committeeman, was elected chairman for the 1965 convention, set for Albuquer que, N.M. prove of the bill because It did not include the reforms he had recommended. He is spearheading the drive for a yes vote but on the grounds that while the tax bill is not to his liking, the money is needed to maintain state services. The referral movement was lead by Albany weekly publish er J. Francyl Howard. He needed more than 23.000 signatures on referral petitions. In less than a month he sot 55.000 certified signatures, and thousands more which county clerks didn't have time to cer tify. The legislature was so fear ful of the bill being referred that Oct. 15 was written Into the law as the date for a special election. House Speaker Clarence Bar ton and Senate President Ben Musa, both Democrats, have urged approval of the measure. The state Democratic Central Committee and many civic or ganizations have voiced support. County vote places listed for election Polls will be open Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., for the vote on the state Income tax referral. A "yes" vote would meet a $60 million shortage in the general fund, and eliminate revision of the budget for the current biennium. The counting will start Im mediately after the polls are closed, and it Is believed that results will be known in not more than two or three hours. Counting will be done by the day boards, augmented by chairmen of the counting boards. The state Is financing the election. All county and state offices will be closed, but city halls and federal offices will be open as usual. Deschutes county voters will cart ballots at 27 precinct plac es. They are as follows: Bend No. 1, courthouse. Bend No. 2 and No. 2-A. Al len School. Bend No. 3 and No. 4, Na tional Guard Armory. Bend No. 5, first Lutheran Church, 271 Idaho Avenue. Bend No. 6 and Bend No. S7, Sons of Norway Hall, 943 Gal veston. Bend No. 7 and Bend No. 11 and ll-A, Kenwood School gym. Bend No. 8, Pilot Butte inn. Bend No. 9, 1001 E. Penn Avenue. Bend No. 10, Catholic parish hall. Bend No. 25. Robberson Ford Garage, 424 E. Third Street. Bend No. 26, Odd Fellows Hall, 265 Franklin Avenue. Bend No. 32 and 32-A, and No. 33, Trinity Lutheran Church, E. Uth Street and Greenwood Ave nue. Bonne Home No. 20, Wagner residence, 1604 Galveston. Alfalfa No. 22, Alfalfa Grange Hall. Eastern Star No. 12, Eastern Star Grange Hall. Pine Forest No. 21 and 21-A, Pine Forest Grange Hall. Redmond No. 16 and No. 17, Redmond High School. Redmond No. 29 and 29-A, John Tuck gym. Redmond No. 28 and 23-A, Catholic parish hall, 12th St. North Redmond No. 31, Mann Construction Co. Redmond Grange No. 19 and 19-A, REA office, Redmond. Tumalo No. 13, Tumale School gym. Plainview No. 14, Squaw Creek Irrigation office. Brooks - S c a n I o n No. 15, Church of Christ, Sisters. Sisters No. 30, Sisters High School gym. Terrebonne No. 18, Terrebon ne School gym. LaPine No, 21, LaPine School. Brothers voters are casting ballots absentee.