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O.Of 03Ll83ARf ! Tke- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Interesting note in the news: A Strategic Air Command (SAC) spokesman at Oftutt Air Force Base near Omaha reveals this morning that on October (two months ago) instruments at Thule, in Greenland. MISTOOK THE MOON for a missile ap proaching the United States. The signal sent out at Thule was picked up at a Strategic Air Com mand control center in the U.S. The spokesman adds that the error was detected in less than 60 seconds. Which is to say that it took about a minute to tell the difference between the moon and an approaching hostile missile. He adds that several optional plans short of committing the nation's bomber and missile fleet might have been followed if there had been reason to believe the alert was genuine. He says SAC com- manders have emphasized that just one enemy missile would NOT send our strike-back force into action. What happened? Presumably signals designed to detect approaching missiles bounced back from the moon, Presumably these bounced-back signals indicated only one ap proaching object. But . . . what if at the same time signals had been bounced back from some of the numerous satellites circling the earth? What would have happened then? It's a ticklish era we're living In. We need to be very, very sure Indeed of the discriminating ac curacy of the robots we must de pend on to warn us of an enemy effort to destroy us when we aren't looking. Mora interesting news: Ag- dispatch from Sacramento this morning relates that a new battle over California's $1.75 bil lion water program is brewing for the 1961 legislature and threatens to cause a North-South split simi lar to the battle that tied up adoption of the program for years. The dispatch adds: "The KEY point is who should control, the purse-strings for the gigantic system of canals and res ervoirs to take water from North ern California to the Southern part.of the state?" -Hmmmmmm. 1 Up here, it seems to most of us, the KEY POINT is how much of our Vvatcr (the water of the California counties of origin and the water that flows down from Southern Oregon into California) , will be SURPLUS? We don't know yet. We don't know how much wa ter, for example, will be neces sary for the development for our industries in the future. We do know we have a lot of pulp timber. We know that will even tually be one of our LEADING industries. It will require a LOT of water. We aren't dogs in the manger. , We're perfectly willing to share our SURPLUS water with others who face a water deficiency. But . Before it is committed perman ently for export to other areas we want to be very sure indeed as to what OUR OWN water needs in the future will actually be. WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent-elect John F. Kennedy today offered a post in his administra tion to Byron Leslie (Whizzer' White, Denver attorney. Kennedy and White gave this news to reporters on the doorstep of the Kennedy home in George town, but declined to say what the position is. White, 43, is a close friend ot Kennedy. He was better known as Whizzer White while an All America football star at the Uni versity of Colorado. White has been mentioned for both attorney general and solic itor general in the Justice De partment. Being vague, White told news men that no specific post was dis cussed. But when reporters asked if he had enough information about the offer to make up his mind. White grinned and replied "Yes." He said he would give Kennedy his reply in a few days. He is re turning to Denver this afternoon. White and Kennedy first met in England when Kennedy s father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was ambas sador to London before World War II. White was a Rhodes scholar. Kennedy, standing with White at the doorway, told reporters he had no plans to announce any Cabinet appointments today. Before the meeting with White, Firms Plead To Charges Weather Klamath FalU aad vicinity Fair today aad tonight. Partly cloudy Friday. High both days Js-43. Low tonight 22-28. High yesterday 3 Low last night 14 Precip. last !4 hour none For year 4.37 Last year .62 GEjC-rS7 DOCUMENTS IV. 5 A. jk 3jA I. i960 Price Ten Cents 40 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6353 Weather Northern California Fair through Friday; (lightly warmer afternoons. Mount Shasta-Siskiyou area Fair and warmer today and to night; cloudy Friday. Sierra Nevada: Fair and slight ly warmer through Friday. Kennedy Qffers Denver Rllan Job British Lower Interest Rate LONDON (AT) - The British Treasury .announced today a cut in the Bank of England lending rate from 5'4 per cent to 5 per cent. . . The Bank of England rate sets the pattern for interest on loans by all British banks and other lending institutions. One- immediate effect of the cut should be to slow down the flow of "hot" money from the United States seeking the higher interest rates available here. This should help stem the seri ous recent outflow or America s gold reserves to foreign banking centers. The bank rate reduction - also represents a relaxation of the Conservative government's se vere credit squeeze. This has been blamed for ex tensive layoffs in the automobile industry. The industry's exports have dwindled in recent months and the credit squeeze made it difficult to sell the overflow in the domestic market, since it hiked the cost of installment buying. The 5'4 per cent Bank of Eng land rate had been in effect since Oct. 27, when the rale was re duced from 6 per cent. Kennedy discussed with Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., possible choices for attorney general and assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division. Immediately alter their break fast conference at Kennedy's Georgetown home, the two entered a car for a quick trip to George town University Hospital and i brief visit with Mrs. Kennedy and John t . Kennedy Jr. me habv is to be baptized in the hospital chapel this afternoon. Dean Rusk Contender For Cabinet WASHINGTON (AP) - Dean Rusk, who served as an assistant secretary of state in the Truman administration, today was re ported under very serious consid eration by President-elect John F, Kennedy for appointment as sec retary of state. ' Rusk, 51 and a Democrat, was said on excellent authority to head the list of possible appointees to the top cabinet post. Rusk, who meets with Kennedy today, is now head of the Rockefeller Founda tion with headquarters in New York. Kennedy has repeatedly de clined to comment on various pos sibilities mentioned in speculation on the successor to Secretary of State Christian A. Hertcr. With out fixing tiny date, he has said only that he would make his se lection soon. He has a conference scheduled today with Adlai Stevenson, twice the Democratic nominee for pres ident 'and one of the first to be mentioned as a possible secretary of state. But this speculation has diminished in recent days, with Stevenson considered a more like ly choice for some other high dip lomatic post. Besides Rusk, others who have been reported under consideration to head the State Department in clude Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; John J. McCloy, New York bank er and former defense department official; David K. E. Bruce, for mer ambassador to Germany and one-time undersecretary of .state; and Rep. Cnestcr Bowles, D-Conn. former ambassador to India and a Kennedy adviser on foreign af fairs. Rusk, a native of Georgia who was reared in Atlanta, began his professional career as an as sociate professor of government and dean of faculty at Mills Col lege in OaKland, Calif., in 1934 Safurday Program Will Climax Drive For Fund A one-hour television program on KOTI-TV Saturday from 3 to p.m. will be the climax in a week-long over-the-top drive of the United Fund toward its $139, 000 goal. The program will feature rep- PHILADELPHIA (AP)-Amer-Ica's largest makers of electrical equipment today made various picas of guilty, no defense, and -harm, nf nrice fixing and bid resenta,lvcs from a11 the commu- rioninn Thp nlpas uptp in nnp nflnication media in the area and - 'f,h""fv i the nation's largest criminal ac-Will also feature such musical tions undr the antitrust laws and !gr0UpS as the Sweet Adelines, cases involving annual sales ot more than f2 billion. One defendant, W. C. Rowland, an official of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., pleaded inno cent. His trial will be set later. The conspiracy charges were leveled in 20 separate indictments handed up by four different fed eral grand juries at various in tervals beginning last February. All told 19 firms and 46 indivi duals were indicted. President Asks Observance WASHINGTON (AP1 Presi dent Eisenhower today called upon the American people to plan and'retary of the United Fund, point- carry out appropriate observances ed out that the $139,000 figure is Sound Tracks, and the KUHS Dix ieland Band. A special four-minute film with Lillian LeFaver, taken in her hos pital room in Portland, will also be shown on the program. Participating in the hour-long show will be Jim Bosley, KOTI TV; Bob Bartlett, KAGO: Charlie McFarlan. KFLW; Rocky River- bottom, KLAD, and Floyd Wynne, Herald and News. Each of these individuals will be emcee for a portion of the pro gram. During the program, the public will be urged to call and make a special piedgc toward the need cd $20,000 to gain the United Fund goal of' $139,000. Glenn Jennings, executive sec- will have to be curtailed somewhat. The theme of the program will be a "Trip to Disneyland" which has been promised to Lillian as her sevenln birthday present. Each $25 contributed to the fund will move the trip a mile closer to Disneylard. A special phone number will be given later for use on the tele vision progiam. However, persons may call between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. between now and Saturday to TU 2-5i58 and make their piedgc. THE 200TH PINT of blood donated by airmen at Kingsley Field is loaded aboard tha refrigerated truck for delivery to Portland. A.S.C. Bill Bartholomew, Information of fice, left, gives Don Turner, American Red Cross truck driver a helping hand. Kings ley Field's quota of 200 pints of blood was exceeded by 52, setting a new Kingsley record. Teamster Union Chief Posts Bond On Charge CHICAGO (AP)James R. Hof fa, indicted with two associates in a Florida real estate venture. surrendered to a U. S. marshal Wednesday, posted $10,000 bond, then hustled back to a hotel to take up the business of his power ful Teamsters Union. Hoffa's appearance before U.S. Commissioner C. S. Bentlcy Pike was sandwiched in between rounds of Teamsters conferences at a South Side hotel. The president of the nation's biggest union was named in a 12 count indictment: voted by a U.S. District Court grand jury in Or lando, Fla. The indictment, charg ing mail fraud involving alleged misuse of union funds: linked Hoffa with two other men in a 2,400-acre land development proj ect, Sun Valley, Inc. Without waiting to be served with a warrant, Hoffa sped down town to the U. S. Marshals of fice, surrendered and was finger- Merger Case Thrown Out NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Dis trict Court Judge Frederick Van Pelt Bryan today threw out the Justice Department's case in which it sought to nullify the merger of Continental Can Co., the world's largest packaging con cern, with Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. In an interim decision read from the bench, Judge Bryan stated the government had failed in all respects to establish that the merger, which took place in September 1956, violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act. Section 7 forbids acquisitions if the effect of such acquisitions les sens competition to a substantial degree or creates a monopoly. Judge Bryan's interim decision to be followed at an unan nounced lulure dale by a formal and detailed opinion was reached after he spent weeks poring over voluminous records and papers submitted ny both sides. da Mendiela. The Justice Department had wounded, and closed its case and rested lastjbrothor, printed. Brought before Pike, he was ordered to appear for re moval hearing Friday. At about the same time, Henry Lower and Robert E. McCarthy Jr. were arrested in Detroit, tak en before Federal Judge Theodore Levin and ordered to appear Mon day for a similar hearing on re moval to Florida. Lower, former officer of a De troit Teamsters local, was re leased on $50,000 bond and Mc Carthy, former branch manager of the Bank of Commonwealth at Detroit, was released on personal recognisance bond of $10,000. Tho indictment was announced in Washington by Atly. Gen. Wil liam P. Rogers. It. grew out of a 13-month investigation by the FBI, Postal authorities and . other agents, and an 11-month probe by the grand jury. Sun Valley, Inc., was founded in 1954, with Lower as its prcsi dent, to develop a tract in Brevard County on Florida s East Coast. But only six houses were built on the land before the project be came embroiled in lawsuits and subsequently was sold to Edwin H. Willis, a Titusville, Fla., bank er and land developer. Rogers said the three men arc accused in the indictment of using more than a half million dollars of Teamsters funds on the proj ect, which was advertised as a retirement haven for union mem bers. ' . Kingsley Field personnel and Oregon Technical Institute set all time records this week when both sponsors of the December visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile from Portland went over their quotas. Added to the first day do nation of 139 pints by the Moose Bowlers, the last two-day quotas gave Klamath Falls the highest donation record in several years for one operation, with 634 pints. Kingsley. OTI Set Records At Bloodmobile Airaeci Aire IFoir A IFIyiinig Congo Authorities Order UN Blockade LEOPOLDV1LLE, The Congo! (AP) The United Nations an-i nounccd today Congolese authori ties have ordered a blockade of all U.N. military surface transpor- tat ion in the Congo. Brig. Indarjit Rikhyc of India,1 chief U.N. military adviser, said it was the most serious challenge to face the United Nations since the beginning of Its Congo opera tion. 'It could paralyze our activi ties, Rikhye told a news conter- ence. "We are not prepared to accept this position at all. It is completely out of the question that the United Nations should submit to this order." The first test will come Tuesday when a U.N. military supply ship ment is scheduled to . sail up the Congo River, the chief traffic ar tery in this nation of few high ways and railroads. Victor Nendaka, head of the Na tional Security Police, ruled that the Congolese surface transport monopoly, Otraco, should carry military supplies only witn needs of the Congo must have pri ority over it. We need our trans portation facilities to feed the Con golese population." The U.N. Command and Col, Joseph Mobutu's provisional gov ernment have been feuding even since Mobutu's coup last Septem ber toppled leftist Premier Patrice Lumumba. First Negro Considered For Cabinet A previous base record was U.N, set last year when the base do- his special permission, natcd 196 pints. Base quota for Food and medical supplies were this year was 200 pints. Total do- excluded from the order. nated was -252. OTI with a quota of 225 pints, gave 243. Since so many people are con cerned at this time of the year with other needs, Red Cross of ficials expressed appreciation Thursday to those who made pos sible the fine December record in Klamath County. Col. Rupert C. Welch, base com mander, along with Red Cross of ficials expressed their thanks and appreciation for the record-breaking donation at the base. Said a nurse, during the course of the Kingsley donations . . . "These Kingsley Air Force people can al ways be counted on to support Klamath Falls community activi ties. They not only provide pro tection for us, but when asked they generously give blood for use in case of emergency. They have our thanks for a job well done." "Wo consider this a definite at tempt on the part of the Congo lese authorities to paralyze all U.N.. operations in the Congo and a violation or tne agreement oe- tween the United Nations and the. 'Congolese government," Rikhyel said. Nendaka, however, told news men: "The united nations is a nolitical body. The economic Moon Scares Daylights Out Of SAC Castro Claims Victory In Battle Near Havana HAVANA (AP)-The govern ment claimed today it had de stroyed a band of insurgents in a battle at Cabanas only 32 miles west of Havana. An army communique said the entire band was cleaned up with the capture of 11 men, including its leader, Capt. Clodomiro Miran- who was badly the killing of his Oct. 18 after six weeks of trial before Judge Bryan. Continental Can now can imme diately move for dismissal and judgment in its favor, contending An officer in Prime Minister Fi del Castro's army was killed and four men wounded. Although the army claimed Ihc entire band was wiped out, carlier'force of militiamen, reported to that the government had failed Unreports said Miranda. Mendiela number 2.000, that was sent alter establish its case. !had 200 heavily armed men wilhllhe deserters. him when he deserted Castro's forces and took to the hills only a few days ago. The reports said Miranda Men dicla, commander of the garrison at Seboruco, took his outfit on maneuvers in the mountains of Pinar Del Rio Province and when he reached a selected spot in formed them he was deserting and gave them a choice of returning to their post or joining him. Two hundred men reportedly stayed with him. Provincial Commander Dermid- io Escalona personally directed OMAHA. Neb. (UPD - It took almost 60 seconds for the coun try's strike-back force to tell the difference between the moon and a hostile missile in an incident two months ago, the Strategic Air Command has revealed. The SAC reported the Oct, false missile attack warning1 Wednesday after a British news paper, the Manchester Guardian said a similar incident occurred last week. The SAC said the Oct. 5 false warning was the only recent incident. A SAC spokesman at nearby Of- futt Air Force Base said a signal flashed at SAC's underground con trol center when instruments at Thule, Greenland, mistook the moon for a missile approaching the United States. The error was detected in "less than 60 seconds," the spokesman said. He said several optional plans short of committing the na tion's bomber and missile fleet might have been followed had there been reason to believe the alert was genuine. NEW YORK (AP)-The Herald Tribune said today that Rep. Wil liam L. Dawson, D ill., leads the field for appointment as postmas ter general by President-elect John F. Kennedy, If appointed, Dawson would be the first Negro in the Cabinet. .... The newspaper went on to name other possibilities for the remain ing posts. In listing them, the pa per said thai while they are sub ject to change, "it can be stated authoritatively" that those on Its list reflect Kennedy's . current thinking. ( . . . . Among them: . , Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates Jr. to remain; with Paul N. Nitze and Roswell L. Gilpatric as alternate choices. . Secretary of the Treasury ' Douglas Dillon, now undersecre tary of state. Other possibilities were seen as Robert S. McNa mara. president of the Ford Mo tor Co., nnd Eugene R. Black, president of the World Bank. ' Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the president-elect's brother, or Byron White, Denver attorney. Secretary of Agriculture Rep. George S. McGovern, D-S.D., or Fred V. Hcinkel, president of the Missouri Farmers Association. HERE'S A CHRISTMAS GIVE-AWAY! Special Areas Designated For Tree Cutting along the road. No cutting is permissible with in 100 feet ot the road. But cut- 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., except during lunch hour. They are also asked lo refrain This year, anyone who wants a tree is invited to cut his own in J-: .K--t-iai an-as uu&iKiiaicu ny jjng Weyerhaeuser Company and the'ck forest service. boundaries are well defined. The! The area will be patrolled to No charge will be assessed, ex- area contains mostlv while andlmaKe sur no commercial cut- during the 1961-65 centennial of the bare minimum necessary to"! for Shasta red fir (silver-! Douglas lir. Boughs are for theirs steal trees. the Civil War. 'meet the budgets of the partici- llPs' ,n lmesl service iana. a taking. The torcsl service has reserved 'In a proclamation, he requested all government officials to enrour asc, foster and participate in such 1 observances. ! Christmas treeing, like skiing.jath Falls Highway. The areajAshland-Klamalh Falls Highwayiniles along the west side of West- is a winter activity that makes reaches south about six miles and-a mgiiway si. nuoui""'";'!side noaa. mat is the route irom the cool season more bearable, jextends about live miles west," open seven udy ....... Tomahawk ski Bowi on Klamath Falls-Lake of the Woods Highway to Fort Klamath. Thp r.itlinrf nron Ik ahni.l A will be allowed any whore , '""" cutting down large trees to milc and haf dccp u bcgins within those borders. Thciget at a well-formed top. labout five miles north of the iunc- tion with Lake of the Woods High way, near Rocky Point. The other area is a square milc enlit hi Tnlil Knrintia Unorl kn. Dating agencies for the coming:silvertiP P611 cosls a dollar- Tree hunters are asked lo get a '0 ' cutting areas. Neither ginning four miles away from the year, and, unless it is reached. The Weyerhaeuser cutting area permit to cut a tree at Klamath, marked, so tree seekers rnust;road', junction with Lake of the the assisii(C to nmunity ac-lbcgms about 25 miles west of Forest Protective Associationijudge mileage. Woods Highway at Pelican Guard cr's permission to cut on other1 The latter area is in the silver tip belt. Cutting permits are available at Rogue River National Forest Klamath District, headquarters in the post office building each Mon day through Friday from 8 a m to 5 p.m., excepting noon hours and each Saturday and Sunday at the same hours at the forest serv ice scaling station, Rocky Point Junction. Tree hunters must get the own- Small Vote VANDENBERG AIR . FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) A Discoverer satellite containing secret sky spy gear of a type which someday may make sneak attack impossi- me circicu we earin toaay. Discoverer XVIII roared on a souped-up booster into polar orbit Wednesday 19th anniversary of the disastrous attack on Pearl Harbor. A 300-pound capsule will be , ejected over the Arctic, possibly today or Friday. If all goes well, it will be snagged by Air Force planes over the Pacific near Hawaii. to it are bits of human tissue and human bone marrow. Scien tists sent them aloft to learn how radiation aflects them a life-and-dcath matter for future men in space. Also aboard the capsule were algae, blood cells, spores, gamma globulin, albumin, gold foil and various kinds of film. The sky spy gadgets presum ably included powerful long-range cameras to scan the earth and infrared devices to detect rocket firings. Such items are being test ed for the Midas and Samos sat- - ellite series. . - A "hot rod" Rocketdyne engine with 160,000 pounds of thrust 10,- 000 pounds more than standard iThor power used In past launch- ings boosted the 2,100-pound sat ellite into orbit after a spectacu lar firing louder and brighter than any of , the 12 earlier Discoverers which achieved orbit. Circling the globe every 94 minutes, tho satel lite travels as near the earth as 150 miles, as far away as 450 miles. ;r ) . : i The Air Force said changes in the rocket permitted an increase lof 7,000 pounds , in the initial weight. They also enabled the sec ond, stage Agena B, all of which orbits, to weigh 200 pounds more. Carrying more fuel, it will be able to start and stop its engine in flight and maneuver in space. fro... u :a 1..C uinv. luihi;, viliucm B4UU, will permit higher orbits to get data not obtained previously. - A violent solar storm gave sci entists a valuable surprise bonus last month when Discoverer XVII orbited for a million miles through extremely high radiation. Scien tists say examination of human tissue recovered from that satel lite show a man could have lived through the intense radiation bombardment. The Air Force normally tries capsule catches about 26 hours after launch. It prefers, however, to keep the capsule h orbit long er. The 17th Discoverer capsule was successfully recovered after more than two days in space. CORVALLIS (AP)-Two thous and persons were eligible to vote for a new director of the Corvallis Rural Fire District. Five did. S. E. Gruver of Corvallis got all the votes cast by the presi dent and secretary of the board and three members of the Elec tion Board. Shooting Times OREGON December 6:50 a.m. 4:35 p.m. CALIFORNIA . -' December t 6:50 a.m. 4:35 p.m. ' Military Takes Control To Thwart Laos Reds VIENTIANE, Laos (AP)-Gov- ernmcnt military elements took over Vientiane today in an action aimed at placing this Laotian cap ital on a war footing against the threat of pro-Communist or right- wing rebel attack. Pro-Communist Pathet Lao ele ments- fled the city. The government threatened the most rigorous military meas ures against Any elements seek ing lo obstruct its activities or influence its neutralist policies. This capital bristled with guns. tanks and truckloads of soldiers in full buttle gear for a few tense hours, hut by noon the city had returned to normal. The action, which neutralist Pre mier Prince Souvanna Phouma supported, came after reports that Pathet Lao forces ringing the capital were poised for attack. r Right-wing rebel Gen. Phouml Nosavan, who staged a break through on the Namkadinh River front 100 miles east of Vientiane Wednesday, was reported advanc ing on the capital too. He had regrouped his forces, recrossed the river, recaptured Pakadinh at' the mouth of the Namkadinh and was marching on Paksane, about 90 miles east of Vientiane. A paratroop battalion, com manded by Capt. Kong Le, has been in charge of the capital's security since Kong Le's coup last August which overthrew the pro American government. - The government agreed to a three-cornered meeting in aneu tral place of Souvanna followers, rightists and the Pathet Lao, A communique said the govern ment would do all in its power to make a cease-fire effective. Leaflets distributed by the gar rison leaders declared outright op position to the Pathet Lao and the leftist Laotian Youth Association. The garrison leaders vowed to "devote our life's blood" to de fending the neutralist government and suppressing Pathet Lao. iiviues prqpyg oy tnor grncg,fliMSl) H'i on ftsniano-mam-n-aaquaricrs near tne junction oil One area extends alxml 3',iStalion. privately-owned land. I t ' f ' 'i V;
