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nn Fl r slews l0)yilljVJ0) y I By FRANK JKNKIN In Dunkirk. New Vnrk. . lenlsllva Daniel A. Heed, who In aiaira 10 nooom chairman of the huua way mid main, committee In tli now oungre, say 1)6 be- iivr win number or Inderal tin- pioyee can b OUT JN HALF. Hound hopeful, doean't 117 .' ' Uul wall mliiut. You've heard Only hull Dm ilorv. llobert itamapeck, chairman o( th US. civil aorvlc commlnlon. fell a radio audience that a new President can hire and fire only about on. ner cent of all federal worker or approximately Moo out oi a total of two and a Halt minion government employee. Cynical thouuht! ' For 110 yearn, the Idea has been to net 'fin Into federal Joba (where they can be expected to vole right) and then FKHPKTUATK 'em In the John o Utey'll KEEP ON vot ing rittnt. 'llial'i politic. ' You know, I have an Idea that way and meana committee with blood In lta eye and Iron In It mil and a vision of oTATESM AN HHP opposed to pure pollllra sould find way and inouna to Break the deadlock. How did we com to apt clut trrrd up with all thee million of Iracrai employees? i Ufa put It thl way! Suppose you're a housewife, 8up pone your huiiband la ao fixed y will) an expenae account tliat would choke a cowl that you could hire all the help you wanted and HOMEBODY ELSE WOULD PAY THE DILL. I'm- afraid .you'd wind up with a butler, a coot, a couple oi acui lory malda to help him and a housemaid far every room In the place, So lone; a nobody com plained, you'd go on hiring more Human nature la human nature, in all walka Of me. 1 Tlili la the nresent point On the fourth day of thia month ef November, thirty odd million taxpayer COMPLAINED. That tV" H un to somebody to DO ' How come an th million tot their dander up and COM' PLAINED I auapect It worked something iiae wis: Huppoa ataln you're a houae- i.'V.'4i profeaalonala all agree l)7wnmin .voted In large num brfc thta year and the figure clearly auigoal they voted heavily In favor of a change.) It could be that you reached the point where you'd five your ehe mie tend maybe throw In your girdle) for a good old-fashioned hired girl to cook the dinner and wh the diahe and alt with the kida while vou and your man went out for a Mil relaxation. ' Hut you couldn't afford II , And bealdra there aren't any hired atria to be had. (Maybe they're all working for the govern ment; we'va heard lot In recent ?er ass ;-0tg ''government girl.") Maybe U came bom to you all of a sudden that If the government would quit hiring more help than It need (With you aa a taxpayer paving the bill) poaalbly you could hire some of the help YOU'RE DURE YOU NEKO. Ko rou went out and VOTED nd howl Anyway, something happened Tt could have been something iw tnai. tule Growers . Slate Banquet ' TULELAKE The annual ban- auet of the Tuleiake Orower As sociation, will be held In early Drember either the 3rd or the 10th, according In John Seua, aaaoclalion manager. The dinner will be aerved In the Legion hall and arrange ment are being made for enter tainment and an outstanding speak r. Tlckel will be available In the car (mure, . Plan for the dinner were made ! a recent meeting at wnien Jim ffearrw, member of the Board oi hinrrvliora. Modoc County spoke pn the problem to be faced In t inflection wllh the formation of a DroDoard Potato District In thl area, Btearna pointea out, amunx other thing, that IrgUlaUon prob- peronl aecrelary to Murray when ably will be neceiwary becauw a the lte labor leader waa vice prea dlatrlct can be organlaed. Ident of the United Mine Workers. Court Denies Spy Hearings " WASHINGTON Ml The Su preme Court Monday refined for the aecond lime to grant a hearing to Jtillti and Ethel Roaenherg, the New York couple condemned to death for paaatng A-bomb aecreta to Ruaaia. ' . The refuaal clear the way for the government to aak that an ex ecution date be aet for the husband and wile apy team. Thus only a commutation of their death aentence by th Presi dent could aave them from going to the electric chair In New York'a Sing Sing prison- The couple ha been In the Sing Blng death house (or IS month. The 8upreme Court last Oct. 13 iefusrd to review the Rosenberg' trial. Their lawyer then asked the rims iUrZL POW Statement Hinted As Ike Meeting Nears Br MARVIN L. ARROWBMITII AltrillU't'A !.. la . . Ut-aaalliaant. sra w w w w a n. V M , Wl I at uaj(wr elect Dwlglil D. Elsenhower prob ably will decide thl week after conference wllh Presldont Tru man and OOP congressional lead- era whether to make a pre-lnaug- uration atatement on repatriation of Korean war prisoner. Elsenhower, spending hi taat day or vacation at III Augunla National Uoll Club, 'Ilea to Wash- Inglon tomorrow oi a history- making session with Truman at the Willi House. . On Wednesday ha will meet In New York with a quartet of Re- fiubiicana wno will nave key roiea n th OOP-controlled 83rd Con gress, convening Jan. 3. In Manhattan, the general will confer firm with Sen. Robert A. Tall of Ohio, chairman of the Sen ate rtrpuuucan Policy committee, and Rep. Joaeph W. Murtln of Mae. Death Claims B. E. Hayden Funeral aervlce were to be held today in Mrnlo Park. Calif., for Bulurd K- Hayden, who died at hi Mrnlo Park home Saturday night. Hayden waa manager of the Reclamation Bureau'a Klamath Project here from 1039 Until hi XT t. - hi IUFORD E. HAYDEN rellrement In IMt. He flrat earn here In laog aa the project' Irru gallon -emttneer. He left her In im for oilier bureau' work and did not return until hla appoint ment to the project managerahlp. Bealdea th widow, he la aur- vlved by: two daughter. Mr. Max Torayth, Menlo Park, and Mr. OtU Milllkan. Wahtntop, D.C.I and ft aon, Buth Hayden, Loa Angelea. Union Names President : PnTBBUROH ' On of Philip Murray' joba has been filled temporarily. David J. McDonald, to', for 30 yeara right-hand man to the veter an labor leader, waa namea acting prealdent of the CIO-Unlted Steel work era Union until th 1.100 ooo member can aelect a new leader In a referendum to b held next rrb. 10. McDonald waa aelected Saturday by th (JSW'a 3membr executive board. Though there waa no official word official aald the choir gave McDonald the Inalde track tor elec tion to the four-year poet. McDonald will continue hi dullea aa th union a eecrclary treaaurer. Murray, alo prealdent of the National ciu, died in an rran' clrrn eleht dava ago. Th new U8W head flrat entered the rank of organlaed labor a a court to reconsider and grant them a hearing. Thia requeat waa reject erf In a short court order. The order noted that Justice Black adhered to Uie view that the Rosenbergs and rnanr expert Morton' 8obell should have ft high court hearing. Thus, the vote Mon day and last October 13 was M Bobrll, was convicted wllh the Roaenberaa and got ft 30-year pris on sentence. He loo, asked the court to reconsider but that re quest was denied Monaay. in connection with the final re fusal, Justice Frankfurter Issued a statement in which he empna sited eRaln that "misconception" ennnernlnir the mean ng OI BU' premp Court refuels to grant nest ings "persist nespne repeated mv lempia at explanation. "It means.1'. Frankfurter aald "and all that It means Is, that there were not four member of the court to whom the grounds on which the decision of the court of appeals was cnniiengen aeemeu sufficiently mnortant when judg ed by the standards governing the Issue or the discretionary writ oi certiorari." ( The granting of such writ means the court agrees to review lit nave. ' The Rosenbergs' second plea for a hearing called tncir dcatn senv n-a a "harharltv." Thev aald that although acoused of conspiracy to commit espionage, their trial before U. S. District Judge Irving R. Kaufman In New York amounted to one for treason but without the requlalta constitu tional aaicguarasi h M I V" ohUMtt! alated to be apeaker of the House. They will discus plans lor ft legialallv program, The . general also ha confer ence vcheduled Wednesday with Ben. Style Brldgea of New Hamp- ahlre, who may aery aa Senate majority leaner, ana en. Alexan der Wiley o Wisconsin. Wiley, In line to head the Senate) Foreign Relations Committee, la a dele gat to th United Nation Gener al assembly now meeting In New York. All four OOl leader "brobably will get a report from Elsenhower on nia comerenc tomorrow wno Truman. That session win deal with in ternational and dmeatlo problems and with th transfer of primary responsibility lor handling tnem from the Democrat to th Re- ubllcana. . 'ItmONKflH Ona matte Truman : aO wania to discusa with EidP la th delicate Issue ot r lion of Korean War pn .uer. Wiley alio la planning to talk that over with the President-elect, and the subject may com up wnen Eisenhower meet wllh Taft, Mar tin and . Brldgea. Wiley already na urged the gen eral to make ft public alalemenl endorsing the present policy of In alallng on voluntary repatriation of prisoner of war as ft provision of any Korean armtillc. Truman and Acheton are aald to be hoping, too, for an Elsen hower alatament supporting the government' current policy on the repatriation Issue. They reportedly are prepared to ten in general It would1 strengthen this country's hand In dealing with other nation at me u. n. Assemoiy. . . V. N. BtSMIOM There hay been proposal that Elsenhower name a liaison man to ait In at th U. N. eeaalona. Indicatlona have been he la against doing this, but there ha been no clue her a to how he feel about Issuing a statement on in repat riation Issue. Elsenhower wlll'also hold on. arata conferences at hla New York headquarters Wednesday wllh Jack Porter. OOP national committee man from Texaa, and Louis K. Oough, national commander of the American Legion. Scheduled to coma In together for another meeting with the gen eral that day are Oov. Sherman Adama of New Hampshire, who was Elsenhower' political chief of staff during the campaign, and Herbert Brownell Jr.. an Elsen hower adviser and former chair man cf the Republican National Committee. Additional Important conferences are being arranged for Thursday and Friday In New York. Some of those aeaalon may deal with th general' forthcoming trip to Korea and posslWy may bring aeoision on wnen ne wut aepan for tn war ton. North Korea Morale Low -TOKYO Wl An allied Intelli gence urvey ay civilian morale In North Korea has dropped to "catastrophic depths" and "The majority of th population . . would welcome U. N. offensive to terminate the war." Th survey, compiled by Oen. Mark Clark' Far East Command, aaya an all-out Red offenslv Is extremely remote, and nearly Im possible from ft supply aianopoim. Th report makes these main points: - North Korea probably would col apse Immediately without Russian and Chines Communist backing. Troop morale at th Red front la good. 'But the soldiers are being fed at the coat of near-atarvatlon imnna ctvlllana Near-famine conditions exist In many area. Much of the civilian population la migratory, looking for food. About 75 per cent of North Ko rea' food production ll confiscated for th Red armiea. Communist leaders maintain control only through Iron-listed police atate methods. Civilians have all but abandoned the cities. The Red capital, Pyong yang, has only l-10th of Its pre war DODulatlon of 500.000. North Koresn workers receive the equivalent of 50 cents a day. An ordinary aspirin tablet cost ft dav'a wattes. Farmers and other Civilians are forcibly conscripted to repair roada, rails and fortifications. The North Korean economy Is virtually non-exlatsnt. Resr area Industry Is on a shoe-string basis. North Korea can produce only small arm and light equipment and tnat In limited amounts, noavy eatilnment such as tanks, sircrait, artillery pieces and big shells must come from Russia or Red China. The renort was compiled to de termine some of "the board effecta of air power as employed In Ko rea." it was distributed oy me r-ar East Air Forces. NAZI VICTIM INVENTOR HARTFORD, Conn. WV-Joe Oer- ber, who cam to thia country In 1M0 to escape Nasi concentration camps. Is inventor and producer of a variable scale device Import ant In America' program for de fending freedom. The scsle Is ds- Btgneo to solve grapnicai prouicma quickly. Ninety-five per cent of his company's production Is for govern ment purposes, and oeroer is word ing on additional developments. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California! Fair through tomorrow wllh some morning fog. Low tonight 30, high tomorrow 43. . v ., . , High yetterdsy ...!..-..... ........, 33 Lew last night ..... . IK Preclp yesterday ..... t Preclp since Oct. 1 ........M Same period last year ........ J. 3d Normal tor period 1-37 in i. a. -aaaa- r Price Fir Cent 1 Pares KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER IT, Ml Telephone lilt No. SW7 Air Wf&r . IFIsres. Sabre Jets Dow-; 9 aftj! SEOUL Wl V. B. Sabre lets Monday shot down at least five Communist MIO-15 over North west Korea th U. 8. Fifth Air Fore reported. The serlea of air battle produced the 21st Amerl- can ace or the Korean war. A sixth destruction claim 1 pend ing confirmation. Jn addition, one MIO wu listed aa probably de stroyed and one damaged. Allied losses. If any, were not announced. Hie new ace i col. Royal Baker of McKlnney. Tex. He got one MIO Monday to raise his total to four MIOs and one LA-a propellor-drlven fighter de stroyed. a I- It,- ffrmmrf Tim A ap4IMv threw a thunderous hours-long bar rage at blood-soaked Pinpoint Hill aiid Rocky Point. It may have be ft prelude to an after dark Communist Infantry assault. Allied artillery roared In answer aa United Nation forces sought out the big Red guns which were drop ping a hail of exploding steel on Allied positions In the Sniper Ridge sector oi tne ventral rront. The artillery duel ahook th en Ura Kumhw& Valley. Communist guna started slam ming 1.300 shells an hour at the entrenched Boulh Korean defenders at 11 a.m. The barrage continued as night feu. TROOPS American officers aald they ob- aerved considerable Red troop movement In the valley at the nor thern end of Sniper Ridge from where Communists have launched previous night Infantry attack against pinpoint and Rocky Point. Latent reports aald Southern Ko rean defenders were withstanding ine oarrage. The temfflo artillery duel broke a short-lived lull all along th bleak, shell-pocked l&s-mtle battle Iront. hit today by IreeUnf cold ana snow. u DRIVES OFF .... - ... Cntmae infantry drive In the Sniper Ridge sector bad dwindled to almost nothing In th 13 hour before tne big guna took over. In the fighting there yesterday. th Chinese launched three drives against Allied positions at Pinpoint Hill, the key terrain of Sniper Ridge. None of the assaulta was firester than two platoon (80 men) n strength. All were beaten back by. South Korean defenders. Also on the Central Front. Eishth Army troops sssaulted Chinese-held Jackson Heights east of the Chor won Valley yesterday but the drive failed. Tne U.N. soldiers were forced to withdrew after on hour and 40 minutes of fighting. Clark Denies Troop Call TOKYO Wl Oen. Merit Clark Monday flatly denied published re ports he haa asked for additional U. 8. divisions to mount an offen sive In Korea. In reply to a query, Clark aald sum stories "ar witnout lounaa Uon In fact." The Chicago Sun-Times Satur day said Clark. U. S. Far East commander, had asked the De fense Depsrtment to send him three or four more American di visions. The Sun-Times report, by TTed erlck Kuh of Its Washington bu reau, aald "according to reliable sotlrce, he (Clark) made It clear that hla aim Is to prepare ft new major offensive against the Chi nese and North Korean Commu nists." U.N. Studies Peace Plan UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. U Wl Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson and other top leval U. N. dip lomats met privately Monday to consider an Indian compromise proposal to end the Korean flght- The huddle began shortly before noon at U. N. headquarters. Other diplomats attending tn ad' dltion to Acheson Included Selwyn Hslvard Lange, Norwegian foreign minister, and Paul Martin, Ca nadian minister of health. These are all among th spon sors of a .3l-nation resolution at ready before the' U. N. urging formal endorsement of the unified command's stand In the Panmun- Jom truce talks and appealing to the Communists to accept the terms ot v. r. negotiators. Shortly befor the meeting be gan It was announced India would make public her four-page proposals- Monday afternoon. i At th end of the meeting, which lasted one hour and 10 minutes, diplomat who attended ald they want to study the Indian proposal further befor making ft decision on lla merit, They also wsnl to hear the ex planatory speech of V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian delegate, who will ! address ui political commute at an early meeting. , Dorris Oks Bond Vote DORRIS An 30,000 bond Issue for an addition to th elementary school here was approved SI to 30 In an election Saturday. Th school, designed In 1938 to accommodate 125 students, haa been badly overcrowded the past few years and thl year ha an en rollment of 230. Additional classroom space naa been provided by using the audi torium ana gymnssiam. The 180.000 addition 1 to provide three new classrooms, a nurse's room and auxiliary rooms. The addition will be on the Northwest wing. Construction win proosbiy not be attempted before spring. Howard Perrln, Klamath Falls, 1 the architect. Ship Vanishes; Reds Accused HONO KONO 11 The Norwe gian freighter Rostro steamed out of Hong Kong Friday and disap peared. Shipping circles fear she haa fallen Into the hands of the Chinese Communists, Complete mystery shroud the fate ot the t.530 ton ship, her cap tain and 53 crew members. The Rostro hsd Just undergone repairs and had completed ft trial run. tsne was awaiting snipping or ders when, without explanation she hoisted anchor at 6 am. Fri day and steamed out ot Hong Kong harbor. Nothing ha been beard of bar since. The Royal Navy searched near by watera and made queries up and down the Asian coast. No trace was - found. Weather baa Been ffood. The Rostro hsd no clearance paper, no cargo and not much mei. Shipping circles (peculated that Communists somehow got aboard and took the Rostro to a Red port. Chinese reports said she wag seen at Canton, but the iacxeo con firmation. Captain of the Rostro Is Adolf Bonre, 87-year old Norwegian. Tne ship, which flies a Panamanian flag la owned by Wallem and Co.. of Hong Kong, a Norwegian firm. A wallem s poxes man said the Rostro waa formerly owned by the British Sends Co. of India. The ship is veteran of Japan-Austral- ia-inoia traoe. The spokesmsn said there was no Inkling ot any trouble with the crew. Huge Tumor Removed GALVESTON W) A 44-year-old Latin-American woman who had a tumor weighing 154 pound re moved from her abdomen five days ago was reported In "good condition" Monday. Dr. Dan Eanes. who performed the three-hour operation at the John Sealy hospital here, said the woman, whose normal weight was about 130 pounds, wss able to alt up In bed and was ."feeling fine." He said the tumor, aa ovarian cyst, was th largest ever re moved In the hospital - and probably the largest In the history of medicine. Dr. Eanes said he understood ambulance attendanta had to remove the front door of in woman's home to bring her to the hospital. He aald the operation required two Incisions, one Be tween three andf four feet long, Cloud Seeding Due Again MEDFORD W California Ore gon Power Co., working wllh a bare majority of favorable opinion, la ready to resume Its winter-time cloud seeding. But It will tell the public, every month, just what Is going on. , Last year the company shrouded Its snow-producing efforts in se crecy. That, A. 8. Cummins, presi dent, now cslls a mistake. In the November election th voters of Jackson County decided, by only 34 votes, that they would- n t ban enons to aner ine wcme, North American Weather Consul tants of passdena will do the work, using seven fixed ground genera tore and one mobile generator. The fixed locations will be at Steamboat in Douglas County; Trail, Tiller, Med ford, Ashland in Jaekaon County, and Rocky Point in -ia math County. SHOOTING HOURS November 18 ,1penv. Ml im.; Jose. 3:43 pjiu IE Northwest On Power Rationing TACOMA Wl industrial users of large amount of the North west's dwindling power supply were rationed Monday and a con ference of federal and atate offi cials was called for Tuesday to mak the rationing stick. An estimated 1.100 Idaho, Ore gon and Washington industrial users of 1.000 or mor kilowatt weekly curtailed consumption of power by 10 Per' cent. Some in dustrial payroll cutback were In prospect. ..-.' C. A. Erdahl. chairman of the Northwest '. Utilities Conference Committee, notified the governors ot the three states and all power companies in ma region of a con ference Tuesday with top-ranking officials of the Defense Electric Power Administration. Deputy Administrator E. J Dryer and1 James F. Davenport of Washington, D. C, and J. H. Gums of San Francisco, chief of DEPA'a conservation and utilisation branch will attend. Governors ot the states send representatives. -Purpose of the meeting 1s to work out enforcement of the 10 per cent curtailment order, caused by tne long drought In We notuv- wesi. NOT INCLUDED Many blr user of electricity not Included In the cutback order nav voluntarily reduced power consum ption, xrdsni reported. Tn Reiau Trade Bureau In Tacoma sched uled ft meeting for Monday to work out Plan lor conservation of power. Residential users also have been asked to curtail power consump tion. Unless tba Dower auoolv tro- rovea anotner curtailment oroer i In ptospect to December. The hardest oa Troll blow fell at the Kaiser Aluminum plant at Mead, outside Spokane. A cut ef 295 workers waa announced. The plant previously had laid off SS7 when "lnterruptlble power" was cut off. Three potllnes were abut down at tnat lime. A fourth waa being; closed on this week' cut back. An Aluminum Company of Amer ica official aald about ao men might be paid off at the firm's Vancouver plant. It has been oper ating at only three-fourths of ca pacity since th cutback on the "lnterruptlble' electricity two month ago. . . Navy Doctor Raps Civilians WABHINrVTOW Im Th 8u geon General ot the Wavy spoke up Monday against what he-called the "avarice" of civilian doctors and dentists unwilling to gerv with the military forces. Rear Adm. Lamont Fugh said an address prepared for the annual meeting of the Association of Mili tary surgeons tnat tne mam ob jection made by Tirima conn doctors against military1 servic is a financial one. For such men. be said, the main attraction of civilian practice aa ODDosed to muitarv "Is simply a matter ot easier quicker and bigger money avarice. Saying there ha been tire some "hue and cry" that military servic must be made more at tractive for physician and dentists, Pueh commented! "During my sojourn at the com batant front tn Korea this past summer I tailed to detect evidence of any special effort being msde on the Dart of anvone to make the servic mora attractive to the sold iers and marines who are fighting, bleeduw and dying- in the heat and dust on a barren Korean hillside." Pugh went on to say that "It seems to me that something has happened to the medical profes sion, and i tor one. loot upon n wna oistinci misgiving ana gn ulne concern." He added: "There would appear to be grounds for wonderlncr If the doc tor isn't on his wav to becoming an heretic of the doctrine that It I more blessed to give than to re ceive." i Eugene Man Scores Kill SEOUL W The XT. S. Fifth Air Force aald five MIO were shot down- Monday ' and sixth claim la pending confirmation. In addi tion. One MIO waa listed as prob ably destroyed'1 and on damaged. Lt. Col. George L Ruddell, 38 Foeh Street; Eugene,- Ore., com mander ot a squadron in the 51st Fighter Interceptor Wing, end his wtna-man attacked eight MIOs In southern MIO Alley In Northwest Korea. Col. Ruddell shot down tne MIO he waa chasing to post hi fin elaim. Ms wlngmsn, who requested that hla nam be withheld, claimed anotnar miu aeairoyea ous jub elaim 1 pending confirmation. Ike Studies Gift Pile NEW YORK m When Preal. dent-elect Dwlght D. Elsenhower returns here Tuesday he will have to decide what to do-with: A live goose, pair of "baby blue underahorts decorated with white elephants, sold aolf teea. fishing flies, a white pigeon, two cans oi gruos lor xisning, a norse shoe once worn by Kentucky Derby winner Citation, and socks knitted with an "I Like Ike" pattern. ' These items are amonar the many gifts arriving here In dally floods at Elsenhower's residence. There Is slso a nlle of 25 000 letters and telegrams for Ike to look over. Indian Youth In Suicide James ( Jlmmie) Chocktoot. 31- year-old Klamath Indian, took his own life rljr yesterday morning In cabin he occupied at Beatty. Sheriff Red urltton aald Chock- toot shot himself In the lace with a -32-eaL Winchester Special rifle while he was sitting on a bed st the esbin. His wife. Florae Baker, was sitting next to him. and their baby waa nearby. Another Indian. Leroy Bone- crusher) Godowa, was also in the room, asleep on another bed a few feet away. They apparently bad been drinking wine earlier In the evening and. the Baker girl told Britton. Chocktoot auddenlv said he was going to shoot himself and n be "had enough lite leu ' ne would kill her and the baby. Godowa alent through the snoot ing and the subsequent Investiga tion. Chocktoot a body waa brought to Ward xtmerai Home. Young GOPs Name Spencer EUGENE W The Young Re- pub'tcsns of Oregon Saturday elected Douglas Spencer of Eugene a their new chairman. Marilyn Peake. Portland, was named co-chairman after the or ganisation amended its constitution to provide lor that office. 8iencer defeated Ed Georgeff. Portland, for the chairmanship. Oeorgeff waa re-elected assistant cnairman. Other officers: Shirley A. Field, Portland, national committee- woman; George Jonee, Salem, national committeeman; Dick Paul, Portland, vice chairman at large: Beverly Hagen. Portland. secretary. k itonaia Bayes, i' Grande, treasurer. Delegates gave blanket approval to ft number of resolutions passed at the organization's recent Prlne ville policy conference. In addition, a resolution calling for establish ment of a four-year, atate-aup-ported college at Portland was approved. The executive board win decide later whether or not to accept Salem's Invitation to bold next year' convention there. , f- -f t V 'atkasBMatJL SOMETHING WAS RJNNY whn th.t lhr. mad th ip.cUl this morning. The trio if compriiad of (I U rl Chuck BoUyn, John Nwffi wo Mil Mellon of th Bolsyn -Janitor Servic. AECtle f"wi birr) waXa LXjJcnihv.iia - "Br tXTOl . A ' i ' AF Military Affairs Keserte WASHINGTON tft-Ohe Atom!, Energy Commission haa officially disclosed that hydrogen bomb "re search" was Included In teat of nuclear weapons at heavily guard, ed Enlwetok A toll. But the commission stood pat today on its refusal to Admit Bucb a bomb had been exploded. The . eonrmlssion, after lsxutng lis terse announcement Jast night, also spoke of possible prosecution for those who hav written letter home about seeing what they de scrioca aa wicr wotjq lirso Jl bomb blast. Dr. Harold C. tJrey, Nobel Prise, winning scientist who was key figure in the development of the atom bomb, aald in Chicago he be lieved the A EC announcement meant the United State has suc cessfully exploded Its lust H- oomb." " J. Robert Oppenhelmer. who dl rected the Los Alamos, N. M., lab oratory wnicn periecteo tne atom bomb, said he could only echo the official A EC disclosure. Reached at his Princeton, n. X, home, Oppenhelmer, now director of the Institute of Advanced Study, said announcement about continu ing research have been made, a number of times before. He said there hss been "a. fine lob of technical work gome on a very Impressive piece) of . work technically. ' ON 8CBKDCLE Rep- Carl T. Durham D-NC), chairman of the-Joint Congression al Committee en Atomic Energy, commented on the AEO announce. ment only by saying the "ther monuclear weapons research" at Enlwetok "came off on schedule." Be would not refer to the tests a hydrogen bomb experiments. However. ''thernMnmclir -pc"? research' to the scientists way ot designating work on an H-bomb. in s lormsi announcement, aeo Chairman Gordon Dean said only that the 1961 series of atomic weapons development tests had been concluded at Enlwetok Atoll; that the program Included "exper iments contributing to thermonu clear weapons research." and that the scientists "expressed eatui ac tion." LETTERS But what reporters asked, about the swelling volume ot letters com ing back lrom ship crew members and others attached to the Joint AEC-military task force which con ducted the 1952 program? The letters, widely published to the United States, described an explosion on Nov. 1 which, to them, seemed to transcend any previeua man-made detonation. They told of a mUe-wMe Island melting away under the blast and awful beat, of a cloud column climbing twice as- high as any ' (Can tinned ea page 1) ' Climbers llear Everest Peak KATMANDU. Nepal UI Swiss. and Nepalese mountain climbers trying to scale the world's highest peak were believed today to have either conquered ML Everest or to have tailed in their attempt. A nine-day-old report, brought her yesterday by native runner. said the Swiss-led expedition then had established Its eighth camp only ISO feet from the top ot th more than as.ooo-foot-hign Everest. That. Itself. Is higher than man has ever climbed and lived to tell it. Experts said they were certain that by now "the attempt Is over and the 8wlss are on the way down, whether they have won or lost." because tt would hardly be possible for them to remain long at such ft height. unennveto '. f f I
