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SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON
60th Year
Ten Pages
Monday, November 18, 1963
Ten Cents
No. 293
IfcmiiM emidls bp ff odt Tuesday atocjiiiepi
Iraq coup topples Baathist regime
Aref reports
his forces
'in control
' BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI)
Iraq's figurehead president, Ab
dul Salara Aref, today led his
country's army and air force in
a dawn coup that Baghdad Ra
dio said toppled the Baathist
party regime.
Fighting between the regular
army and the Baathist national
guard accompanied the take
over, but at 4 p.m. Baghdad
Radio announced the army had
established "control."
Aref, who although president
had been virtually powerless
under the old regime, an
nounced over Baghdad Radio
bis forces had taken control of
the capital and had named him
Junta chairman with "excep
tional powers."
President Gamal Abdel Nas
ser of the United Arab Repub
lic Immediately offered support
for Aref, in turn, called for
Arab unity among Iraq, Syria
and the U.A.R. The ousted
Baathist regime that was head
ed by Premier Ahmed Hassan
Bakr had been at odds with
Nasser,
j ; Students Celebrate
i ' nteports from Cairo said sev
eral thousand Cairo University
students staged a jubilant dem
onstration 1 on the campus in
support of the coup, cheering
bJ aUmilinn "Inner livA Arpf"
B11U OIIUU.UI, "6 "
end "long live Nasser.")
Aref, who ordered the army
and air forces to take control,
Is not a member of Baath, the
Arab Socialist movement that
has swept to influence in the
Middle East during recent
years and gained control of the
governments of both Iraq and
Syria.
The 42-year-old Iraqi president
had made a career of master
minding Iraqi revolutions. He
helped former dictator Abdel
Karim Kassem stage the July,
1958, revolt that brought down
the Monarchy In Iraq, men,
last February, he led the up
rising that overthrew Kassem
and established the Baathist re
gime. The broadcast announcement
that the army had established
control came 12 hours after the
first announcement of the mili
tary move by Aref.
In Its 4 p.m. announcement,
Baghdad Radio said that "a
large number of national
miardsmcn have now surren
dered. Thcv were well
treated."
Aref proclaimed himself chief
,ot state and clamped an around
the-clock curfew on the country
until further notice.
In his initial announcement.
Aref ordered the national guard
a para-military organization
formed by Baathist strongman
Deputy Premier All Saleh Al
Saadi dissolved and instruct
ed its members to turn in their
arms.
Leader in Exile
Saadi is in exile in Madrid
where he flew last week when
an attempted coup by a right
wing faction of the Baath party
was crushed.
Observers here said today's
revolt apparently was staged to
fend off the possibility that
Saadi. leader of the Baath ex
tremist wing, might return
from exile and try to seize the
government.
The reports of the fighting In
dicated that some of the young
rational euardsmen loyal to
Saarli resisted the takeover.
flhservers in Beirut pointed
out. however, that the national
guard, which was relatively
noorlv armed and organized,
could be no match for the hiph-
ly efficient army whose tanks
were known to nave oeen rins
ing the city up to Sunday night.
At stake appeared to be the
future of the international
Baath partv whose leaders
have called it "the wave of the
future" in the Arab world. The
Baath party was formed in 1940
bv two Svrian politicians Mi
chel Afla'k and Salah Bitar.
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AUCTION ITEMS COLLECTED Members of the Bend Ki- his donation of juniper shrubs are Kiwanians Don Conner, left,
wanis Club fanned out into the Bend business community today
to collect donations of merchandise and services for the club's
big radio-telephone auction to be held on Dec. 5, 6 and 7.
Among the first to offer a contribution was Robert N. New
land, center, owner of Newlands Greenhouse. Shown accepting
and Bob Thomas. The club uses proceeds from the auction in
its boys and girls work. General chairman for the affair this
year is Cort Hackett. He is being assisted by Ted Creighton,
last year's chairman.
Flames hit
9 hotels on
Boardwalk
Ruling says Hatfield
lacks power to make
selective reductions
By Zan Stark
UPI Staff Writer
SALEM (UPI) -Hopes for
Tuesday adjournment of the leg
islature were dashed today by
Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton
who said the governor "has no
power to make selective reduc
tions in expenditures.
Thornton's decision means the
legislature will have to set rigid
guidelines to authorize cuts, ana
set down a list of priorities for
possible budget restorations.
While the ruling is a victory
for legislators who have wanted
Eludes established, It is anouier
major setback for Gov. Mark
Hatfield who had asked virtual
ly unlimited control to make re
ductions and restorations based
on changes in the state's fiscal
position.
Rep. Kcssler Cannon, R-Bend,
had asked Thornton if the gov
ernor had the authority to eli
minate the community college
building program, and other
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (UPI)
A pre-dawn fire turned a
hotel-convalescent home into a
funeral pyre for at least 23
elderly persons today and
spread to eight other Boardwalk
hotels..
Fire Marshal Michael Bloom
berg said indications were that
only seven of the 30 guests
registered at the 120-unit Surf
side Hotel had escaped.
By noon EST, liremen had re
moved three charred bodies
from the smoldering rubble
The blaze also destroyed the
six-story Stratmorc, the Leon
ard, and the Imperial hotels
and the Breyer guest home. It
also damaged the Nixon Hotel
mc HUlivnuw, I ami nail aim ... . i .
vi u a. mill uie tAutuuuii n i,. . "..-" jsj
th. snrfsirt- thP hntPls hart no Thornton said the governor did
. . . 1 nnl Yora that tuithni-ltV
guests and contained only token I
maintenance crews. Uniform Percentage
At least 12 persons were in- Then the attorney general
iured, including a woman guest I went on to say the governor
whn was rennrleri in critical "has no power to make selec-
condition. One policeman and tive reductions in expcnuiiuici.
twn f remen Un were nmnne ...allotments to an auctwu amio
the injured taken to Atlantic I agencies must be reduced by a
City hospital. un"rm percentage,
Barghoorn held
for 16 days
in small cell
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI)
Yale political science Pro
fessor Frederick C. Barghoorn,
52, spent 16 days in a small
lighted cell in Lubyanka Prison
at Moscow, it was learned to
day. Mrs. Elizabeth Barghoorn, 70,
mother of the mild-mannered
professor, said, "the food was
very poor, and he lost 10
pounds."
The professor's mother, who
lives in an apartment adjacent
to her son s said two nussian
policemen arrested him "and
he was handcuffed." She said
they took her son to a "little
cell" where a light burned 24
hours a day.
"The Russian guard looked
in on him all the time," she
said.
Mrs. Barghoorn said that,
when her son was freed, "they
took him right to the plane.
They didn't allow him to get in
touch with the people ai me
(U. S.) Embassy. He had cock
tails there the night before he
was supposed to leave (prior
to his arrest)."
She said her son "came home
dead tired." and went to bed
early Sunday night. He "was in
a state of complete exhaustion,"
she said, but noted that he was
up bright and early today.
"He was waiting for a call
from Washington," she said.
Mrs. Barghoorn indicated ner
son probably would go to Wash
ington to report on nis imprisonment.
U. S. denies
plan for joint
declaration
WASHINGTON (UPI) -State
Department officials today de-l
nied the United States has plans
to join Canada in declaring a
12-mile offshore limit for fishing
rights.
"There are no present plans
at all for any such action," an
official said.
Canada announced in May its
intention to establish a 12 mile
fishing limit. The United States
recognizes only a 3-mile terri
torial sea limn, umciais wiu
the United States and Canada
have held two meetings and
plan another soon on the problem.
ixri McKenzie closes-mmmmomi
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Winter settles over
mid-state Cascades l
Winter settled over the Mid
Oregon Cascades this past
weekend, closing the high Mc
Kenzie Pass to travel for the
1963 season, providing a great
weekend of winter sports at
Bachelor Butte and creating
dangerous driving conditions in
some areas.
The weekend fall of snow
was not heavy, but it was suf
ficient to cause maintenance
difficulties on the exposed, mile
high lava divide between Des
chutes and L,ane i,ounuc5. ns a
result, the crews were with
drawn from the pass Sunday
and barriers were erected at
both the east and west ap
proaches. The McKenzie route, now by
passed by the Clear Lake Cut
off, was in use less than six
months this year. It was open
ed to travel on May 23. Closure
of the pass in 1962 occurred on
December 2.
Snow in the mountains at
tracted a large crowd to Bach
elor Butte over the weekend.
The double - chair lift was in
operation for the first time this
fall. Attendance Sunday was de
scribed as "big." with all fa-
Brooks-Scanlon
offers top bid
Brooks - Scanlon, Inc., with
an offer of $14.60 for the pine,
was the successful bidder for an
estimated 8.300.000 board feet of
timber in the Poly Top No. 2
sale area when an auction was
held this past weekend, at the
Deschutes National Forest of
fice. Brooks-Scanlon was the only
bidder for the timber, and all
offers were at the minimum
price. This will be the second
Brooks-Scanlon cutting in t h c
same area. A sale was also
held there in earlier years.
The sale gets its name from
a landmark, Poly Top, old vol
canic butte in the Fort Rock
District about six miles south
east of China Hat.
LAUNCHES ROCKET
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.
(UPI) The National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration
(NASA) launched an Aerobee
sounding rocket Sunday carry
ing instruments to measure ul
tra violet radiation.
o
cilities in operation and the1
main parking area filled. Ski
ing was good. Joining in winter
sports on the high slope of the
old dome, veneered with fine
"skiing snow," were skiers
from all parts of Oregon.
Road conditions over the Cas
cades this morning were im
proved over slick, snowy areas
encountered Sunday, ai uovern
ment Camp this morning, the
snow was packed and well
sanded, following a night fall of
five inches and a roadside depth
of 11 inches.
Motorists using the Santiam
early in the day were advised
to carry chains. Only half an
inch of new snow was measur
ed. Spots of ice were reported
from the Willamette aiviae,
and from other Oregon routes
in the snow belt.
Another storm is moving in
from the Pacific, with increas
ing clouds and showers Tues
day afternoon predicted for
Central Oregon.
The five-day forecast calls for
a cooline trend later in the
week, with lows expected to
drop to the 15-25 degree brack
et, and with cool daytime temp
eratures in prospect.
Heavy rams are predicted for
Confidence vote
poses test for
Douglas-Home
LONDON (UPI) Prime
Minister Sir Alec Douglas
Home, challenged by the oppo
sition Labor party to call im
mediate general elections, to
day faced the first confidence
test tor his new government in
the House of Commons.
Douglas-Home was expected
to win the vote easily because
of the 100-vote margin his Con
servatives hold in the House.
The motion attacks the govern
ment for failing to deal ade
quately with housing and slums
in its legislative program. An
other motion Tuesday charges
the government has made no
effective proposals for man
power utilization.
Although Labor was given no
dunce to carry either motion,
it clearly hoped that the de
bates would gain it increased
support among the voters for
the general elections which
must be held in the next 11
months.
The party in power can call
the election at the lime it con
siders most favorable, and most
observers believe Douglas-Home
will wait at least until spring. A
delay would appear to help the
Conservatives. Labor has been
leading recent public opinion
polls and Douglas-Home is not
well-known to the voters as yet.
coastal areas, with from two to
three inches exnected. East of i DOW JONES AVERAGES
the Cascades, the precipitation I By United Press Internatioal
expected late Tuesday is ex-1 Dow Jones final stock averages:
nected to droD from one-fourth : 30 industrials 734.85, off 5.15;
i. - ult : U t n.;,ln,i I 90 railrnnrie 170 75 nff 1 Rl - 15
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n o iha h nhor ill ips H7 . oil o. in. ana Db mere, nui we aiun i ium mm,
level I stocks 259.37, off 1.75. many." Dooney said. I flation.
Firemen Helpless
The fire's early start and lis
extreme heat and smoke forced
firemen to stand by helplessly
as the Surfside burned to uie
cround,
Screams and wails of the per
sons trapped inside could be
heard above the noise ot tne
fire-fighting equipment.
The fire was discovered
shortly after 4:30 a.m. EST and
30 minutes later the general
alarm was sounded, bringing
out fire apparatus from a half-
dozen shore resorts.
The fire was contained at
about 8 a.m., although some of
the buildings were still burning.
The Surfside was on Mary
land Avenue, about 300 feet off
Iho famed Boardwalk. It is a
summer season hotel and be
comes a residence for the ill
and aged in the off-season.
Hears Screaming
"I heard screaming and wails
from the Surfside," said Board
walk artist Louis Levine, who
lives nearby. "I panicked and
didn't know what to do."
Levine said police did a
"heroic job."
Only one of the Surfside sur
vivors was admitted to Atlantic
City Hospital. She was Anna
Shallit. 63, of Mill St., Morris
town, N.J., listed in critical
condition with severe body
burns.
The blaze sent flames roaring
200 feet into the air. Officials
declined to make damage es
timate, but observers said it
would be well over $1 million.
The fire was discovered by
Capt. James Dooney and Pa
trolman Ace Godowski, answer
ing a routine police call to the
area. Dooney said he opened
the lobby door of the Surfside
and was met by smoke and a
wall of flame.
"We heard hollering inside
and knew there were people in
"There is no indication that
the allotment of one agency is
entitled to a higher priority or
creater dierutv than mat ot an
other," Thornton said.
After voters rejected the tax
increase Oct. 15, Hatfield eumi
nnipH rnnit.il construction pro
grams, trimmed general iuna
agencies, ano canea me icgiam
ture into special session to give
him authority to cm pasic
JFK sees rosy
U.S. economy
TAMPA. Fla. (UPI) Presi
dent Kennedy said today that
measures taken by his admin
istration have greatly benefited
business and helped to raise
profits to an all-time high.
Kennedy appeaicu i ""
nessmen to work with the fed
eral government "in harmony
instead of nosinuy anu
mote prosperity for all.
He said in a speech prepared
for the Florida Chamber of
Commerce that passage of his
$11 billion tax cut proposal was
"indispensable" to continue eco
nnmin exnansion next year.
Tlii President defended his
taxation and spending policies
and denied that federal budget
deficits or the mounting nation
al rfoht wou d lead to Dann-
ruptcy or Inflation in the Unit
ed States.
Kennedy painted a rosy pic
ture of the economy that con
trasted with his statement to
the AFL-CIO convention Friday
that the need to provide more
jobs and reduce unemployment
was the top domestic issue of
the day.
Even though prices have been
more stable than in any com
parable recovery period, he
Business leaders iear in-
school appropriations, and to en
act a one-shot speedup of with
holding tax collections.
Thornton said the legislature :
ould have to enact specific S;
guidelines to make selective
cuts legal.
House Speaker Clarence Bar
ton said, "The problem can
easily be taken care of by set
ting down guidelines."
Thornton said, "The legisla
ture will have to set guides, but
may not be easy to do."
Thornton said some legislators
have questioned the constitution
ality of the allotment control
law, but added "I did not go in
to that."
Barton said the legislature
could pass a bill dealing with
the slate's present emergency.
and set maximum reductions tor
each state agency, and list a
priority program for restoration
if money becomes available.
"I don t question the law,
Barton said, "but it seems to
me hospitals and welfare serv
ices are a lot more- important
than the Rogue River Coordina
ting Board or Civil uetense.
Guldos Were Sought
Rep. John Mosser, R-Beaver-ton,
has been fighting for legis
lative euides on the governor's
authority since tne special ses
sion was called. Hep. oiauora
Hansell, R-Hermiston, has urged
the legislature to draft a com--plete
new budget to meet the
fiscal crisis.
The Boardman Issue remained
a auestion mark.
Further committee hearings
were planned today on an em
ergency bill asked by Hatfield
to remove legal entanglements
which threaten the space age
industrial park in northeast Ore
gon.
Legislators did not appear en
thusiastic about having once
again to pull uie tsoaruman
chestnuts out of the fire;
The Roeini? Co. which has
leased the land for an industrial
park, said it would not honor
the lease if the legal cloud was
not removed.
Barton said, "there'll be quite
bit of storm and fury raised
over this thing. There will be
lots of 'I told you so' from op
ponents. But we've got to go
ahead."
So far, the special session has
been a bad one for Hatfield.
Two of his vetoes have been
overridden by the legislature.
The Boardman project, a Hat
field pet, has blown up again.
And now the governor's author
ity to make selective allot
ment cuts has been challenged.
Fine presidential timber
Maurine has good words for Sen. Smith
WASHINGTON (UPI) Poli
tics aside, the lady senator
from Oregon thinks the lady
senator from Maine is fine
presidential timber.
Sen. Maurine Neuberqer, D-
Ore., did not go so far Sunday
lo say she would vole for Sen.
Margaret Chase Smith, R
Maine, who has been consider
ing running for the GOP presi
dential nomination.
Mrs. Smith also has been
mentioned as a possible Repub
lican vice presidential candi
date. Mrs. Neubergcr said she
thought the only other female
senator should "take a fling" at
going after the presidential
nomination.
A female president is inevita
ble sometime, Mrs. Neubergcr
said, "and I can't think of a
better person to pioneer than
Margaret Chase Smith."
Mrs. Smith might garner
some votes from women who
were only being loyal to their
own sex. Mrs. Neubcrger pre
dicted, but she said the Maine
Republican was more than able
to stand on her own record.
"She has a long record of
legislative experience, she s an
able member of the Senate. . .
as she was of the House," Mrs.
Neubergcr said in a radio inter
view. Mrs. Smith still has not de
cided whether she will enter
the New Hampshire presiden
tial primary March 10 against
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and
probably Sen. Barry Goldwa
tcr. R-Ariz.
Mrs. Neuberger said Mrs.
Smith would be an "asset to
any of the proposed nominees
on the Republican ticket, be
cause all of them have some
faults or some shortcoming in
the minds of the public."
Others who have praised
Mrs. Smith include:
President Kennedy, at a re
cent news conference, said the
lady from Maine would be a
"formidable" opponent If she
decided to enter the New
Hampshire primary.
Rockefeller described Mrs.
Smith as a "wonderful person
and a very able woman and I
hope she will come into tne
New Hampshire primary."
Sen. Clifford P. Case, R
N.J., said in a radio Interview
SuneViy that Mrs. Smith would
ma "an excellent vice president."
Bend's Yule
decorations
are put up
Heralding the approach of the
Christmas season, yule decora
tions were placed on wires
across downtown streets in
Bend Sunday by the Jaycees,
with the erection of the com
munity tree set for this coming
weekend.
The decorations were placed
earlier than usual this year be
cause the Jaycees have other
obligations facing them in the
weeks just ahead. Illumination
of the downtown streets will not
take place until after Thanks
giving, when Christmas lights
will blaze.
New overhead decorations are
being used on the streets this
year, and one string suffered
considerable damage this morn
ing, when wires of a plastic
loop got entangled in a passing
truck with a high top.
The break in the string oc
curred on Wall street at tha
Minnesota intersection, and
firemen were called out to pick
up the pieces and clear the way
for traffic. Red, plastic strips
torn from the overhead decor
ations drifted up the street be
fore a wintry breeze.
The Christmas tree that will
be erected at the Wall-Oregon
intersection by the Jaycees this
coming weekend is being do
nated by Mr. and Mrs. Seaton
H. Smith, on Drake Road.
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