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SEARCH THROUGH RUBBLE - Soldiers and civilians
search through rubble in Skopje, Yugoslavia, Friday after
an earthquake wracked the city. A "minor tremor" rock
Hew Tremor Shakes Yugoslav
City During Tito's Inspection
NW Lumber Strike
May Spread Alter
Union Board Meet
Portland - (UPD - The pos
sibility of more men being
idled In the current North
west lumber dispute loomed
high Saturday as members
of the International Wood
' workers of America made
plans for their regional ad
visory board meeting here to-
day.
Dick Gillman, public rela
tions official for the organiza
tion, has announced board
members will decide which
firms will be struck next.
Some 27,000 workers have
already been laid off since the
union - management dispute
over expired contracts broke
out last month. The strike is
now in its 52nd day.
The latest development in
the dispute occurred Friday
when operations of Pope and
Talbot, Inc., were struck in
Oregon and Washington by
the IWA and the Lumber and
Sawmill Workers union.'
The union action followed
a break in negotiations with
the Timber Operators coun
cil, of which Pope and Talbot
is a member. Talks with the
group ended Thursday with
union officials demanding a
wage increase of 33 V4 cents
over a three - year period and
management offering a 26
cent hourly increase.
FREEMAN FLIES
Moscow - (UPD - Secretary
of Agriculture Orville Free
man flew Saturday from Kiev
to Minsk, Moscow radio re
ported. Freeman spent three
days in Kiev visiting collec
tive and stale farms and ex
perimental and scientific re
search establishments, the ra
dio said.
NEWS(BftlEFS
niMI FROM JUT AII0UND TOI 0l0M
PAIR ESCAPES EAST BERLIN
Berlin - UPP - A hol-rodding South American ipad
under Communist barriers in a low tlung car lo fret hit
East Berlin girl friend in tht second such escape of the
year. West Berlin police disclosed Saturday.
RED PREMIER PUSHES PEACE OFFENSIVE
stcow - aPt - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev,
armed with fresh backing from his East European allies,
Saturday pushed hit "peace offensive" toward the West
in the wake of the partial nuclear test ban agreement.
ITALIAN REDS REJECT CHINESE STAND
Rome - H'-W - Italian Communists Saturday harshly
rejected the Chinese (land in the Sino-Soviel ideological
split as "abiurb and condemnable . . . dogmatic and ex
tremistic." UAR AIRLINER REPORTED MISSING
Bombay - ilPP - A United Arab Airlines comet jet
liner with 60 persons aboard win reported mining Sat
urday when it failed to arrive as scheduled tt Bombay's
Santa Cruf Airport from Bangkok.
U.S. Scorns
Charge of
In Ransom
Washington - (UPD - The
United States Saturday re
jected as "completely without
foundation" Cuban Premier
Fidel Castro's charge that he
was swindled out oi $iu
million worth of supplies in
the ransom deal for the Bay
of Pigs prisoners.
The State Department said
Canadian and U.S. banks,
which issued a letter of credit
guaranteeing delivery of $53
million in medical supplies
and other goods, reported
some time ago that the Amer
ican Red Cross had fully met
that commitment.
"Castro should check his
facts more carefully," the de
partment said in a statement
which was read to newsmen
by Press Officer Richard I.
Phillips.
State CD Agency
To Request Funds
Salem - (UPD - The Oregon
Civil Defense Agency will ask
the Slate Emergency Board
for $46,110 next Friday.
At Its meeting last week
the agency's advisory coun
cil decided to seek enough
money to hire three more
employees.
Addirii the three employ
ees could make the state eli
gible for federal matching
funds which would mean an
additional six persons on the
state staff.
The recent legislature slash
ed the Civil Defense staff
from 18 to three and the fed
eral government refused to
provide any matching funds
for employees.
ed the center of the city Saturday as President Josip Broz
Tito began an inspection tour. (UPI)
Castro
Swindle
Exchange
It said that July 3, when
the Red Cross announced com
pletion of delivery, "the Cu
ban Red Cross thanked the
American Red Cross for the
fine way it had completed its
miss-ion. , ' '
That statement was made,
according to officials, by the
head of the Cuban Red Cross,
Gilberto , Cervantes, at a
meeting of American Red
Cross representatives work
ing in Cuba.
Not Official
The ransom deal, under
which 1,113 prisoners of the
ill-fated April 1961 invasion
attempt were released and
brought to the United Slates,
was approved by the
U. S. government but it was
not an official undertaking.
It was carried out by the Red
Cross working with the coop
eration and assistance of a
number of American officials,
including Atty. Gen. Robert
F. Kennedy and U. S. business
leaders.
Castro, in a fire-eating
speech Friday on the tenth
anniversary of the beginning
of his revolutionary move
ment, asserted that the U. S.
government had prevented
the Red Cross and attorney
James B. Donovan of New
York, who negotiated the
prisoner release, "from ful
filling the agreement with us
100 per cent."
Rocky Urges New
Foreign Aid Plan
Monte Rio, Calif. - l'PD -New
York Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller Saturday urged
the gradual replacement of
the U.S. foreign aid program
with more American private
enterprise abroad.
Rockefeller said the exten
sion of private capital around
the world could serve as a
substitute for the official for
eign aid program. He made
the remark in an informal
talk to members and guests
of the Bohemian club annual
encampment.
The two week long en
campment, which concludes
today, is reserved for men
only and features a talk ev
ery day by a leader in the
field of business, education,
science, art or government.
About 1,700 persons- heard
Rockefellers talk. Members
and guests who left the en
campment last night said the
New York governor also
touched on the subjects of ra
cial discrimination, the cur
rent railroad dispute and the
Venezuelan political situation.
They said the 40-minute ad
dress was non-controversial
in nature, in accordance with
the club's rules.
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Thousands Feared
Still Buried By
First Earthquake
Skopje, Yugoslavia - IUPD -A
new tremor rocked earth
quake - devastated Skopje
Saturday as U.S. Air Force
planes launched a massive
mercy airlift and President
Tito inspected the rubble of
this once busy "model city"
in which thousands of per
sons were feared buried.
Rescue center officials said
that by nightfall about 1,000
bodies had been pulled from
the rubble and "several thou
sand" were known injured.
The officials said the death
toll would reach at least 2,
000 but there were fears that
additional thousands may
have been killed in the quake
that destroyed about 80 per
cent of the Macedonian cap
ital that was to have been
the showplace of Yugoslav
Communism.
An estimated 100,000 per
sons were made homeless.
Train Missing
In Munich, Germany, Wesl
German railway officials dis
closed that the Crack Hellas
express train loaded with hun
dreds of vacationing foreign
tourists was missing in the
earthquake zone. They said
the Athens - to - Dortmund
train was due in Skopje's main
station when the quake struck.
The cries and shrieks of
trapped persons were heard
under debris of the heavily
damaged railway station Sat
urday and teams of rescuers
struggled to reach the buried
victims.
Saturday's new shock was
described as "minor." It fail
ed to ruffle Tito, who never
flinched as the earth wabbled
under him as he toured the
ruined main square that bears
his name in this city of 200,
oon. Yugoslav officials announc
ed the U.S. Air Force had
launched a major mercy air
life to bring aid to the shat
tered town. They said 27 U.S.
Air Force transports were
starting to arrive at Belgrade
airport at 30-minute intervals,
Sight Loss Suffered
By Eclipse Watcher
Terre Haute, Ind. - (UPD -Authorities
said Saturday a
man suffered partial loss of
sight from watching the
eclipse with the naked eye
last Saturday.
Dr. Don Connor Jr. examin
ed the man. He said the vic
tim suffered about 30 per cent
loss of vision.
The victim, who asked not
lo be identified, looked at the
eclipse for about 10 seconds.
He said he heard the warn
ings on radio and television
and read them in the news
papers, but "1 wanted to try
it anyway."
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Pentagon Ruling
Draws Hot protest
From Southerners
Thurmond Levels
Blackmail Charge
Washington - (UPD - A new
Pentagon policy of declaring
communities off limits in case
of serious racial discrimina
tion drew angry protests Sat
urday from some southerners.
Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-
S.C.) accused the administra
tion of "economic blackmail
in its rawest form." Mississip
pi Gov. Ross Barnett said that
'if we don't just bow to them,
then we're off limits."
Some other southern offi
cials did not seem disturbed.
They predicted little use of
the order because of recent
progress in desegregating
communities near military es
tablishments.
Defense Secretary Robert
S. McNamara, authorized mil
itary base commanders Friday
to place entire communities
off limits to protect nearly
a quarter of a million Negro
servicemen and their depend
ents from off-base discrimina
tion.
The criterion would be "re
lentless discrimination," or
"those places or communities
which would continue to prac
tice discrimination regardless
of the situation," the Penta
gon said. Base commanders
could not use the off-limits
device without permission of
their service chiefs.
Thurmond, a member of the
Senate Armed Services com
mittee, said the order would
be detrimental to the local
economy, individual service
men and their families, and
the entire defense program."
The American people will
not accept government black
mail and coercion, Thurmond
added. And military com
manders will resent the order,
he said, because their mission
is the nation's defense "rather
than creation of domestic tur-
moil and strife by engaging
themselves in sociological and
political activities at the be
hest of a power-mad adminis
tration." Thurmond said South Caro
lina mayors, for example, re
ported "excellent" race rela
tions and growing business de
segregation In their commu
nities near Camp LeJeune
Marine base and Cherry Point
Marine air station.
Kennedy Speech on
Treaty Is Praised
Washington - IUPD - Senate
Democratic leader Mike Mans
field of Monlana led a round
of general congressional praise
Saturday for President Ken
nedy's speech on the partial
nuclear test ban treaty, term
ing it a "gamble worth the
effort."
The President's talk was
seen as the beginning of in
tensive administration efforts
to insure Senate ratification
of the pact. Although it was
warmly praised by many law
makers in both parties, some
still voiced doubts.
Mansfield, a member of the
Senate Foreign Relations com
mittee which will act on the
treaty, said the President's
"very good" speech pointed
out that the agreement "rep
resents a breakthrough in the
cold war and could, if prop
erly observed by both sides,
be the first break in the clouds
in many years."
He warned that "it would
be wrong lo make loo much
of this agreement." But, he
said, "Even more, It would
be wrong to make too little of
it."
Bridge Collapses
During Golf Play
Mount Clemens. Mich. -A
140-foot wood and metal
i bridge at the Hillcrest Coun
try ciun, scene oi me wom
en's Wolverine Open Golf
tournament, collapsed Satur
day plummeting 80 persons
Into the Clinton river.
Ecstimatcs of the injured
ranged from 34 to 50 persons.
The Macomb county sher
iff's office said 34 had been
injured while St. Joseph hos
pital in Mount Clemens said
it had treated 35 persons and
Mount Clemens General hos
pital said it had treated 15.
At least eight persons were
admitted to the hospitals.
Play in the golf tournment
Saturday was cancelled and
all scores were erased. Tour
nament director Richard Grif
fin said the players had agreed
to play 16 holes today and 16
holes Monday to complete the
match for a total of 50 holes.
Harriman Reports to
Rusk on Test Ian Treatv
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REPORTS ON TREATY - President Ken
nedy is shown with W. Averill Harriman
(left) and Secretary of State Dean Rusk as
they met at the chief executive's vacation
Communications
Satellite Speeds
To Final Orbit
Cape Canaveral -IUPD -Amer
ica's new Syncom-2 commu
nications satellite sang anoth
er chorus of "The Star-Span
gled Banner" to earth Satur
day and sped toward a final
resting place in a unique
hanging orbil.
Jubilant scientists said they
would begin "fine-tuning" the
satellite's orbil this week end,
to match the forward speed
of Syncom-2 with earth a rota
tion speed.
When the corrections are
finished, ,- probably late this
week,' the 86-pound satellite
will appear to hang virtually
in one . spot in the sky - an
ever-present target for radio,
telephone, teletype and fac
simile . communications be
tween stations on earth.
The success of Syncom-2
may herald a day when as few
as three communications sat
ellite's in similar hanging, or
24-hour, orbits could blanket
the world with instantaneous
radio and television commu
nications. Scientists had to forego any
television tests with the tiny
Syncom-2. There was not
enough, room aboard the
moonlct for the necessary
gear.
But the experts were pleas
ed with whal they were gel
ling with radio and teletype
tests. Early Saturday, the first
series of experiments were
completed with a laboratory
ship, the USNS Kingsport at
anchor in Lagos harbor, Ni
geria, beamed a tape trans
mission to Syncom-2.
The tape carried voice re
ports and music, including
The Star-Spangled Banner.1
Syncom-2 caught the signals,
amplified them and shot them
back to the ship.
Record Rain Floods
Buildings in Tulsa
Tulsa, Okla. - (UPD The
hardest rain in Tulsa's record
ed history flooded scores of
homes and businesses Satur
day and stranded hundreds of
motorists, There were no
deaths reported from Ihe vi
olent weather.
An even 8 inches of rain
fell in four hours, breaking
the previous record of 7.3
Inches in a 24-hour period set
in 1943. The U.S. Weather
Bureau said more heavy rains
were in store for Tulsa al
though skies cleared in late
afternoon.
Civil Defense Director John
F. Wilson said 25 to 30 fami
lies had been evacuated from
their homes, mostly in West
Tulsa. He said he had no way
of knowing the total number
of persons rescued from their
homes by boats.
County and city police and
fire agencies called in off
duty personnel to help In res
cue operations. The police de
partment asked all boat own
ers to contact civil defense to
help in evacuation of the
flooded homes and businesses
6
house on Squaw Island near Hyannis Port,
Mass., Saturday. Harriman reported to
President Kennedy and Rusk on the nu
clear test ban treaty. (UPI)
Rail Union
Urges Congress To
Take Watchdog Role
Washington -IUPD- A rail
road union" leader Saturday
urged Congress to assume a
watchdog role in negotiations
with the carriers to settle
their four-year-old work rules
dispute and prevent a threat
ened nationwide strike.
H. E. Gilbert, president of
the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen,
told a special Saturday sessioq,
of the Senate Commerce com
mittee that such action would
give the negotiations a need
ed "shot in the arm."
After a similar presentation
by officials of the Engineers'
union Friday, Labor Secretary
W. Willard Wirlz called the
parties together for a two-
hour bargaining session.
Wirtz scheduled another
session (for 3 p.m. edt) after
Saturday' committee meeting
and announced that such ses
sions would be held In the
future whenever Senate and
House committees are not
meeting.
Gilbert opposed President
Army Division To
Be Flown To Europe
Washington - IUPD - The De
fense Department is planning
to fly an entire army division
- about 15,000 troops - to
Germany later this year In a
dramatic demonstration of its
jet age ability to "get there
first with the most."
A major implication of the
mass move is that It may
point the way for America
to reduce its permanent gar
rison in Germany at some
future time and rely on high
speed air lifts for quick rein
forcement in emergencies.
Joint Chiefs of Staffs plan
ners believe the massive air
lift can be carried out in only
three or four days, constitu
ting a unique training exer
cise for the army and ulr
force. , The schedule would
call for a jet transport depar
ture every 30 to 40 minutes.
Teenager Battles 800-Pound Jewfish
For 35 Hours Before It Gets Away
Cocoa Beach. Fla. -IUPD-There
were an estimated
10,000 witnesses to the one
that got away from 13-ycar-old
fisherman Mike Doug
las Friday night.
After battling an 800
pound Jewfish for more
than 35 hours, Mike lost
the big fish about 11:35
p.m.. est, when the youth's
fishing line snapped.
Mike took his loss gra
ciously. "I'll get him again
someday," he said.
Homemade Rig
The youth had hooked
the fish around 3 p.m., est,
Thursday with a homemade
rig and bream for bait.
"I'm going to keep on
fighting it until I land It -or
collapse," he said. "I rest
Leader
Kennedy's proposal, under
consideration by the commit
tee, to turn the dispute over
lo the Interstate Commerce
commission (ICC). He said the
plan amounted to compulsory
arbitration, even If its sup
porters might regard it
"Just a little bit" of compul
sory arbitration,
Gilbert proposed Instead
that bargaining sessions be
tween railroad management
and the five operating unions
proceed under "congressional
direction and observation."
He said Congress might as
sign a joint committee to tide
herd on the sessions and make
periodic reports on the atti
tudes of the parties "and their
conduct of good failh."
Gilbert endorsed legisla
tion, proposed by AFL-CIO
President George Meany, to
prevent a rail shutdown indef
initely while a special con
gressional committee keeps an
eye on the bargaining.
"Then Congress and the
public will see who's bargain
ing and who isn't, and we'll
settle this dispute without a
strike or further legislation,"
Gilbert said in an interview,
He said the only solution
would be found in collective
bargaining. Earlier mediation
efforts were not worthy of
praise, he said, but recent
bargaining sessions held by
Wirtz have been fruitful.
Elkton Man Killed
In Two-Car Crash
Eugene -IUPD- Fred Dickin
son, 53, Elkton, was killed
and three Massachustts resi
dents were injured in a two
car collision on Stale High
way 58 near Odcll Lake
southeast of here Friday
morning.
State police said Dickin
son's car failed to make a
curve on the highway and
collided with a car driven by
H. Alden Bunker, 27, Lenox
Mass. Dickinson was alone In
his car.
when the Jewfish rests, but
I wonder who is going to
give out first."
The manager of the Pat
rick Air Force Base pier,
where Mike latched onto
the huge fish, said about
10,000 people had congre
gated around the pier ts
shout encouragement to the
young angler.
Several Divers
After the battle had been
going on about four hours,
several divers went down
to see what the boy had
caught.
Mike's father, Lt. Col.
William K. Douglas,
brought his son food and
soft drinks during the long
struggle.
Douglas, former doctor
JFK
nvoy Describes
Pact To Nation
As 'Good Treaty'
Khrushchev Letter
Given to Kennedy
Hyannis Port, Mass. -(UPIU
Undersecretary of State W.
Averell Harriman told the
nation Saturday the nuclear
test ban pact just initialed in
Moscow "is a good treaty"
that will not prevent the use
of atomic weapons in event
of war..
Harriman held a televised
news conference after report
ing personally to President
Kennedy , and Secretary of
State Dean Rusk on U. S.British-Russian
talks that led
to conclusion of the pact
which would ban all except
underground nuclear tests.
During his 90-minute con
ference with the President
and Rusk, he delivered a per
sonal message from Soviet
Premier . Nikita Khrushchev
described as "very friendly."
Harriman said the treaty
probably was a "very impor
tant step" toward a possible
thawing of the cold war.
It carries out what wa
have1 wanted to do for a good
many years," he said. He add
ed! that -the- treaty was "a
first step of Importance in
the attempts we have been
making for a good many years
to try and make a beginning
of the control of nuclear weap
ons."
The V, S. negotiator also
-ventured an opinion on why
Khrushchev hc reversed pre
vious Soviet opposition to
such a partial treaty.
"I think it is fairly clear
that Mr, Khrushchev wanted
to show the (Communist) Chi
nese that his policy of co
existence could present soma
results," Harriman said.
Harriman said the agree
ment had caused "real rejoic
ing" throughout Europe and
among the Russian people.
"The Russian people dread
war and they are ready to
see progress made - anything"
a step closer to the peace they
crave," he said.
Rusk and Harriman later
flew to Washington. On their
arrival at Andrews Air Force
base In nearby Maryland,
Rusk said he hoped the treaty
would be the first step toward
other "cold war negotiations
with Russia." nusk praised
Harriman as a "cool negotiat
or" and said he was pleased
with the job Harriman had
done in Moscow.
Rusk plans to fly to Moscow
next week with a bipartisan
congressional delegation for
formal signing of the treaty.
Harriman is to appeat Mon
day for closed-door question
ing by the Senate Foreign Re
lations committee, which will
consider the treaty first in
Senate debate on ratification.
At Hyannis Port, Harriman
refused to go into much de
tail on other matters discussed
by the negotiators. Nor did
he give any new enlighten
ment on his private conversa
tion with Khrushchev Friday
which presumably dealt with
further steps that might ba
taken to ease East-West ten
sions. for the nation's first seven
astronauts, said Mike had
been relieved at the pole
only long enough for "the
necessities of life."
Fish Rested
Mike slept for about an
hour Thursday night while
the fish rested, and took
several short naps Friday
night.
He made the fishing rig,
a nine-foot pole with 63
pound test line, to catch
sharks.
"I sure didn't count on
this," he said.
By Thursday night, the
crowd around the pier on
U. S. Highway 1 got so
large highway patrolmen
had to be called In to keep
traffic moving.