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CCBF Around-Clock Sessions In Civil Rights Battle Start Again In Senate WASHINGTON (AP)-The Sen-! ele jumped into the second week of its civil rights filibuster today with Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas declaring there is no prospect now of limit ing debate. The scheduled round-the-clock talk resumed at noon after a Sab bath recess from late Saturday. The outlook for settling the bit terly contested election year civil rights controversy appeared little, if any, brighter than when the is sue was brought up in the Senate Feb. 15. The Southern filibuster has pre vented any vote on amendments to an administration bill now be fore the Senate. Since it requires a two-thirds vote to invoke clo ture, or limit debate, civil rights advocates have hesitated trying it until they - are sure they have enough support. Ike Planning Flight Home, Trip Report RAMEY AIR FORCE BASE. Puerto Rico (AP) Deeply tanned and looking chipper again. Presi dent Eisenhower flics home to Washington today to ready a ra ;! dio-TV report to the nation on his ("15,500-mile visit to four South American countries. His hoarseness nearly gone, Eisenhower planned to take off from this U.S. air force base aboard his Boeing 707 jet at noon for the three-hour flight to An drews Air Force Base outside Washington. - Eisenhower concluded a 10-day tour of Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay last Thursday and has been resting at sun-drenched Ramey since. He arrived at the base exhausted and developed a plaguing voice huskiness that gave him trouble during a speech at Dorado Beach Friday, Sunday his weariness nearly gone, Eisenhower flew back to the Dorado Beach Club 60 miles east of here and played 18 holes of golf in ideal weather. The White House went ahead with plans for his address Tues day night. He will speak from Washington for 15 minutes start ing at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The address will be carried by all major TV and radio net works. U.S. officials here hailed Eisen hower's Latin American tour as an unqualified success. They con tended it improved U.S. relations with Latin America at a time when improvement was vitally needed to meet Communist pene tration efforts. Eisenhower was accompanied to Dorado Beach Sunday by his son and daughter-in-law, Maj. and Mrs. John Eisenhower, and their four children: David, 11; Barbara Anne, 10; Susan, 8, and Mary Jean, 3. 't U.S. Completes Base Evacuation RABAT, Morocco (AP) - The U.S. Air Force has completed evacuation of its Ben Slimane Air Base and it will be turned into a home for nearly 1,000 or phans from earthquake stricken Agadir, it was learned here today. The base was evacuated three weeks ahead of schedule. The last 40 Air Force personnel stationed there pulled out four days ago. w GIRL SCOUT WEEK is in progress and these girls were happy to give Herald and News Photographer Wes Suderian a demonstration of what they have learned in their home making program. The girls are, from left, Theresa Ash, Shirley Davis, Betty Givens, Sharon Cramer, Donna Pearson and Georgene Loti. Practical mending, patching, darning, short ening and hem lengthening are some of the 10 requirements of proficiency. Each girl made her own uniform. At the moment, Johnson told reporters, "there is no possibility of cloture. 1 don't believe it will be possible to get culture until the air is cleared. "Nothing could do more to clear the air than to have a vote. It is essential to find some means to clearly express the mood of the Senate." While Southerners expressed confidence they can keep going with the day-and-night talking they managed all last week. Sen Paul H. Douglas (D-IIH called for a Senate vote soon to shut off the debate. "They're wearing us out," he said in a television interview. Douglas conceded that a deter mined filibuster cannot be broken by around-the-clock sessions. He said it would be difficult to get the two-thirds vote needed to shut off the debate, but added "I think we have a very good chance to win." Sen. Clair Engle (D-Calif), like Douglas a supporter of civil rights legislation, said he has obtained six of the 16 signatures necessary to file a petition for such a vote. He said, however, that Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas had counseled him against pushing it at this time. Even if a debate-closing vole were forced, there is general agreement it would fail at this time. Johnson is trying to work out a compromise bill that could win the support of two-thirds of the senators. Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa) said Sunday those who want to end the filibuster are at least 10 votes short of the number they would need. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D- Ga) said he doesn't believe more than a bare majority would vote now to end debate. Demo Blames Crash On Ike WORCESTER. Mass. (AP) -Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler says President Eisen hower "has something to answer for" to the wives and children of Navy men killed in a Rio De Ja neiro air crash. - Butler made the statement Sun day night during a debate with Sen. Hugh D. Scott Jr. (R-Pa) at Temple Emanuel. Scott retorted "This attempt to put blood on the hands of the President is not very creditable." Some 500 in the audience ap plauded Scott strongly. The Rio crash on Feb. 26 took 64 lives, including those of mem bers of the U.S. Navy Band who were to have played for the Prcsi dent on his South American tour. Butler questioned whether Ei senhower had the right to take the Navy band on his trip and asked "was this a political show or something?" Scott answered the Navy band was in South America on a cut tural exchange tour aboard the cruiser Macon. Residents Okay Money For Time JASPER. Tex. (AP) Jasper County residents decided it's worth $15,000 to repair a 67-year-jof Rangoon. Damage was esti old clock and put it back up on mated at six million dollars, re the county courthouse. In a special election Saturday 1182 persons voted to restore the clock to its perch and 875 voted against spending the money. U.O? Cr;".LI3riAnY KSiSI'APSR SECTION GEN. RES'. AND, CQCUSSIITS DIV. EUuEUE.onsa. mriiyymwNwiuyiMmiywflOiywMiiiiMy timfl Price Five Cents 12 Pages Racial Strife Near Climax In Southland By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Negro sitdown demonstra tions appear to be approaching a climax in tense Montgomery, Ala., while leaders in several other Southern cities urge stepped up demonstrations or mediation. The sit-ins over equal lunch counter facilities are now in their second month. They have spread into seven Southern states. Spokesmen for the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People in Virginia and Florida have urged continued demonstrations by students and adults. But an interracial group in South Carolina and a college president in Tennessee lavor meetings to discuss the conflict. A racial clash almost erupted Sunday at Montgomery where an armed guard of more than 50 of ficers was needed to separate crowds of Negroes and white per sons. The Negroes planned a mass prayer meeting on the state Capi tol steps to support Alabama State College students whose recent demonstrations brought expulsion of nine campus leaders and the promise of nearly 1,000 students to boycott the college. But the Negroes changed their meeting place to the nearby Dex ter Avenue Baptist Church. While the session was in progress an estimated 5,000 white spectators. including a number of women and children, assembled. The Negroes started to leave the church and between 300 and 400 white men surged through po- ice lines. Officers armed with clubs and service pistols broke up the white demonstrators and pushed the Negroes back onto church property. A drive-in restaurant at Colum bia, S.C., was the scene of near violence early Saturday. White people in two cars said a group of Negroes battered the cars with clubs and bricks. A white woman in one car was injured slightly by flying glass. Graham Chides Moslem Leader NAIROBI. Kenya (AP) Billy Graham has turned down a Mos lem religious leader's challenge for a faith healing contest to test the powers of the Christian and Islamic beliefs. "Christ was once challenged by Satan to perform a spectacular feat in order to prove his deity," Graham told an interviewer. "He answered by saying 'Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God.' " Sheik Mudarak Ahmad, chief of the East African Moslem mission of Ahmadiyva, proposed Friday that 30 incurables be selected, that Graham and six of his follow ers pray over 15 and the sheik and six of his followers would pray over the rest. Fire Hits Town RANGOON, Burma (AP)-Fire has wiped out more than half the town of Yandoon, 60 miles , north ports reaching here said today The blaze raged all day Saturday in the trading center. About 5,000 people, half the population,, were made homeless, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. Admiral Miffs Teachers Over Closing IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP- Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, the Navy's atomic submarine ex pert, reaped a bushel of barbed comments from miffed educators after he questioned the wisdom ot closing schools for the annual Idaho potato harvest. I merely pose the question: Is potato picking as important as training the minds of our chil dren?" Rickover said. "I think it deserves serious thought. Are we to judge Idaho people by the number of potatoes they pick or how much they know of cultural subjects, history, algebra and foreign languages?" Idaho educators, while not de bating the value of school work versus spading spuds, were quick to question Rickover's qualifica tions for criticizing American schools. "Rickover has gone a long way in his own particular field, but this does not make him an expert in all fields," said John Booth, president of the Idaho Education Assn. "The best thing that could hap pen to Rickover would be for him Parents Face Loss Of Girl Considered Too Intelligent OLD BRIDGE, N.J. (AP) A brilliant 4-year-old girl today faced the possible loss of the only home she has ever known because the state says she is too intelligent for her foster parents. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Combs said Ihcy'll go to court Tuesday in a fight to keep Alice Marie, who has been called a near- cnius. The state says the couple is more interested in watching tele vision than in reading books. Combs denied the state's con tention that he and his wife can't give Alice the "opportunities for intellectual and cultural develop ment" she deserves. The State Board of Child Wcl fare Dlaced the Birl with Comb.' when she was ah infant. Then it became aware of her precocious development. She was reciting nursery rhymes and carrying on adult conversations when she was 2. The board said Alice had an I.Q. of 138, which is 12 points be low genius rating. The board also said she had "a capacity of po Minister Fires Space Ship As Part Of Sunday Service BALTIMORE (AP) - The Rev. George F. Packard, an Episcopal minister, has launched another space vehicle. He did it in church, just like the last time. Two years ago, it was a card board "churchnik" rocket that zinged lo the ceiling on rubber bands. Sunday, it was a six-foot pepier - mache model of the Mer cury astronaut capsule which America's first space traveler will ride. The blastoff occurred during the family service at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, where the Rev. Mr. Packard is rector. As two children pulled a rope strung through a pulley, the silver - colored capsule painted with three orange crosses moved up to the rafters of the church. A couple of youngsters gasped. But there was not enough audible reaction from the congregation of 125 adults and children to disturb the decorum of the Lenten serv ice. Beside the pulpit stood a ply Two Persons By Weekend Two persons were admitted to Klamath Valley Hospital with se rious injuries sustaftied in auto mobile accidents over the week end. Admitted were O. D. Rceder, 2834 Patterson Street, with sev eral fractured ribs, and MrsoBess B. Carithcrs, 4420 Bartlett Street, with a severe head injury. Reeder was reported in good condition today, and Mrs. Carith ers was improved. She was to be given X-ray examinations to-day to determine the full extent of her injuries. The patients were victims of separate accidents. State police said Reeder and his wife, Leona Minnie Reeder, had turned left from South Sixth Street to Hilyard Avenue at 6:30 Satur day evening when their car was struck broadside by a car driven by Steven Frank Southwell, Route 2. Reeder was thrown from the car MONDAY, MARCH 7, i960 Of Schools to teach a sixth grade of young sters in a U.S. school. "His idea is education for the intellectually gifted and beyond that he is not aware. He appears lo believe fn a program only lor the intellectually giitcd." T. C. Bird, superintendent of schools at Boise, said his city doesn't let schools out (or the an nual potato harvest as many Ida ho communities do, but said: "It is up to the community. If that's what they want, let them do it. After all, schools belong to the people." Rickover made his remarks Saturday in an interview with the Idaho Falls Post Register. He said he didn't want to in trude on local problems, but that he had been asked to comment on the annual potato harvest holi days. "Education, after all, is everyone's problem." He said European students at tend school 240 days a year com pared to about 180 days in this country. Rickover said this is why European students arc two years ahead of their American counter parts at 17. tential far greater than her pres ent performances." The board filed custody papers to take the child from the Combs and find other foster parents who, the board says, should be finan cially and -intellectually better prepared lo aid her. Combs, a sheet metal worker. wants to adopt Alice, but was turned down by the board. He and his wife are appealing the case in Superior Court in Trenton. They have two daughters. Combs, 25, said he is " "confi dent I'll be able to send my girls to college." He said he is making $120 a week. The board conceded that Alice appearod happy and well ad jlisted. She does not know the Combs are not her real parents, Combs agreed that he is not an avid reader, but said that he and his wife are reading more because of their smart daughter. "There's no question that she's very bright, but she's emotional as well as intelligent," Combs said. "Taking her away from us would hurt her deeply." wood "electronic counter" eight leet nigh with red and green blinking lights, labeled "Keep the Astronaut In Space. On the other side was a model of the Vanguard earth satellite borrowed from the Martin Co. and a five-loot paint ing of one of the seven U.S astronauts. The Rev. Mr. Packard built the Mercury capsule, from National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration pictures, and the elec tronic counter. His wife painted the astronaut picture, also from photographs provided by NASA. The minister drew a parallel be tween the discipline and training required of the astronauts and the similar rigors required of Chris tians during the penitential season of Lent. Good attendance by St. Mary's children will keep the capsule in orbit. Week by week until Easier. sections of space suit drawings will be pasted on the astronaut un til he is fully garbed. Hospitalized Aufo Crashes and into an adjacent canal. Police Said a passing motorist pulled him from the water. Southwell, whose car spun completely around, was taken to Klamath Valley Hospital where he was treated and re leased. The accident occurred In a heavy rain. A 1960 compact car spun into a parked tractor-trailer unit seven miles south of Sand Creek on U.S. 97 shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday. Po lice-said the truck unit, driven by George Howard Bollock, 2220 S. W. Fillmont, Portland, had parked on the side of the road, facing uphill. The car driven by Charles Carithers was approach ing when it skidded on ice and swung headon into the truck. Carithcrs sustained minor inju ries, police said, but Mrs. Carith crs was severely Injured. Police said no citations were is sued as a result of either accident. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6318 Atomic Flash Will Trigger Alarm System WASHINGTON (API - The blinding flash of light thai flares (rem a nuclear blast will be the only trigger lor an automatic Mnb alarm system being in stalled throughout the United Stales. The first alarm stations will be operaling in two or three weeks. it was disclosed during the week end. The national syslem will be completed in a few months. In the momentary interval be tween any nuclear bomb burst and the pulverizing blow of the follow ing shock wave, the system will let the nation's high command know which areas have been hit. The automatic relay will report only nuclear hits. It will not give advance warning of an attack. The first of more than 100 "sen sor stations already arc being in stalled by the Air Force. The sla lions will be linked by wire com munications to six major centers. Information from the system will Iced into centers at the White House, the Joint Chiefs of Stall war room in the Pentagon, the alternate command center buried underground near Ft. Ritchie. Md., the Air Force command post in the Pentagon, (he Strategic Air Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base. Omaha, and headquarters of the North Ameri can Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs. Colo. Brig. Gen J. B. Bestic, deputy for Air Force communications and electronics, disclosed details of the "atomic strike recording syslem" in testimony to a House Military Appropriations subcommittee. A transcript was made public Sun day night. Bestic said it will cost about two million dollars yearly to operate the network. Communica tions wires will be leased from Western Union. Work on the sys tem started last May. The chief value of the system will be to tell the Strategic Air Command inslanlly which of ils bombers and missiles are de stroyed if an attack should come, and which bases are untouched. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity - Partial clearing tonight and Tucs day with a few showers. Highs 48- 54; low tonight 38-43. High Sunday 59 Low last night 35 Prccip. past 24 hours .22 Since Oct. 1 5.78 Same period last year 3.7! Northern California Showers with snow falling above 5.000 feet tonight and Tuesday; cooler In most of area. CRATER LAKE High yesterday 38 Low last night 30 8 a.m. today 31 New snow 6 Snow depth 10; A strong wind from the south cast was blowing In the park this morning and skies were cloudy and a light rain was falling. Chains advised for travel over Highway 62 through the park and required from Annie Springs to the rim Cumulative snowfall since last Oc tobcr 1 Is 284 Inches compared with 276 for the same period last year. THIS TWO CAR CRASH about 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of South Sixth ', Street and Hilyard Avenue hospitalized O, D. Reeder, 2834 Patterson Street. Shown at far left with only the front end protruding out of the ditch is the vehicle which was operated , by Reeder and at far right, en edge of the road, the auto driven by Steven Southwell, Route 2. Police cars end other vehicles are shown in light reflections. Photo by Kettler US Is Planning Armed Invasion, Says Cuban Press HAVANA (API Rcvolucion implied today that U.S. interests sabotaged a French munitions ship in Havana Harbor as a prelude to military intervention in Cuba. The newspaper of Prime Min ister Fidel Caslro's revolutionary movement returned to the attack on the United Slates as the U.S. Embassy prepared to hand Cuba stiff nole protesting Castro s raveside speech Saturday. He blamed U.S. officials for the blast. An official announcement listed the identified dead from the ex plosions Friday aboard Ihe French freighter La Coubrc at 46. The an nouncement said many more hu man fragments are in Havana morgues and search continues in the wreckage. Unofficial estimates have placed the death toll as high as 70. The article in Rcvolucion was written by its leftist subdireclor, E. Vasquez Candela. "Every lime Ihe United Stales has wished lo prepare public opin ion in its country for military ac tion," Candela wrote, it has pro moted a disaster producing loss of lives and property." Friday's technique, he went on. was Ihe same as used at the Ala mo in 1845. in the explosion of the Maine in 18118, Ihe Lusitania dis aster in 1915 and Ihe attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941." The newspaper did not explain how the sabotage of a French ship involving neither Americans nor U.S. properly could be used by Washington as a pretext for inter vening in Cuba. All Ihe victims of the explosion were Cubans except six, who were members of the ship's crew. Strained U.S. Cuban relations moved closer lo a showdown with Signals Bound Off Satellites CAMBRIDGE. Mass. (AP) Two teen-age amateur radio oper alors say they bounced coded ra dio signals off ionized trails left by satellites and achieved two- way communication between their homes. Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, making public an account of the experiment, called it prob- ably the world's first successful two-way communication with the aid of artificial satellites. The young "hams" made use of a principle known as Ihe Kraus effect. In 1957. Prof. John D. Kraus of Ohio Stale University found that a fast moving body like a satellite leaves a wake of loniza lion in the Ionosphere that may spread out 100 miles behind it The experiment was reported by Rafael Soifer of New York City, an MIT freshman, and Perry I. Klein. Bclhosda, Md., who will en ter MIT next fall. Klein now is a senior at Bclhcsda-Chcvy Chase High School. Bolh are 17. Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, director of the MIT research laboratory of electronics, said further experi ment is needed to determine the exact nature of the aid furnished by satellites. Besides Ihe Kraus effect, he noted another possible explanation of the achievement rcradiation of signals from the an tennas of passing satellites. Soifcr's paper said that al the time the two students made Ihcir lest in the early morning of Feb 6, the U.S. satellite Explorer VII and the Soviet Sputnik III were in low orbit almost simultaneous- ly about 150 miles east of Atlantic City, N.J. 4tf Mm V - KM '' JP jnr inwr".. :.iy .... ja- - ' o o a the Washinglun nule expected to accuse the bearded prime min ister of deliberately making an irresponsible accusation. U.S. Charge d'Alfaircs Daniel M. Brad dock .was to deliver the American denial of Castro's charge. Cuban 'authorities Sunday night freed American photographer Donald Chapman, 26, a passenger on the ship, alter holding him two days in connection with Ihe dis aster. A Cuban civilian court cleared Chapman of any connection with Ihe explosions, in a five-minule hearing alter Cuban military in telligence had held him incom municado. No official charges were ever placed against him. The Ncbra.-kan said all he warned to do now was to gel home "as fast as possible." Army Probes Actions Of Colonel's Son MUNICH, Germany (AP)-The U.S. Army today investigated GI complaints that their command ing officer took his 11-ycar-old son on an official inspection tour and Ihe boy bawled out a soldier for his uniform. The youngster is Richard Juer gens, son of Col. E. K. Jucrgens. For the inspection he wore a lieutenant's uniform, complete with campaign ribbons and swag ger stick. The boy reportedly tore apart one soldier's display of his cloth ing, held up a parka and barked lo (he first sergeant: "This guy doesn't have a (shoulder) patch. His name is Holmes H-O-L-M-E-S." "The kid should be spanked and his old man, too," said one sergeant. An Army spokesman said the inspector general is investigating the incident, which took place here Feb. 26, but declined official com ment. Col. Jucrgens, commanding the 47th Ordnance Group wilh head quarters in Munich, acknowledged to .reporters his. son accompanied him on the inspection of a com pany here. , "Richard is my only son and he's quilo a pal of mine," Ihe colonel said. "When I look him along, I just didn't think the men would be embarrassed or upset about it." When he learned later some of the GIs were fuming calling it a mockery of inspection" and "dis grace of the uniform" the colonel returned and apologized to the company. Jucrgens said his son is a mas cot of the 71st Ordnance Battal ion, of which the inspected com pany is part. The colonel said he paid for the material of his son's uniform and gave it to the com mander of the battalion who had a tailor make it up. Charges Dismissed Reckless driving charges against Leroy Harry Pomberton, 18, 327 North Ninth Street, have been dis missed from the district court docket. Pomberton was to have gone on trial Monday. The district attorney s office said it moved for dismissal because there was no witness lo testify that Pcmberton actually was driv ing a car that skidded into an irri gation canal February 27 with four youths as passengers. Three youths were thrown from the car. II
