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Solons Study Conservative fower Curbs WASHINGTON (AP)-The skir- mishing starts today in the Senate nd the House on moves to curb the power of conservatives in the 87th Congress that will convene Tuesday. In the Senate, a caucus of liberal Democrats was called to map strategy for a fight directed pri marily at making it easier to shut off filibusters against civil rights and other controversial bills. In the House, prior to a caucus of all Democratic members, a group of liberals was angling for tlie support of Speaker Sam Ray bum for action to weaken the Rules Committee's grip on legis lation. . Sponsors of the moves in both branches of Congress contended they were necessary to clear the way for the kind of legislative pro gram urged by President-elect John F. Kennedy In his "new frontier program which favored congressional procedures that would permit the majority to work its will a position he sup ported as a member of the Senate. However, he also indicated he believed it was a matter to be worked out by Congress without executive interference. In the ab aence of. his direct intervention, sny far-reaching changes in Sen ate or House rules appeared un likely. About 40 of the 65 Democratic aenators were invited to today's liberal caucus in notices sent out - by Sens. Paul H. Douglas, D-Ul., Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa.. and Hu bert H. Humphrey, D-Minn. One of their chief goals is a change in Senate rules so that fili busters can be halted by the votes of 51 senators, or a majority of the 100 members. It now takes the votes of two-thirds of the senators present and voting. They also would like to bring about changes that would give them a stronger voice in policy' making machinery and whittle away some of the power of legis lative committee chairmen, many of whom are conservative South erners. The liberal Democratic group in the House has an identical objec tive in its maneuvering against the powerful Rules Committee, which in the past has bottled up some measures of the kind advo cated by Kennedy. It Is domi - nated by' Republicans and South ern Democrats. Democratic leaders have made plain their desire to avoid as far as possible any parly splitting' fights even before Kennedy sub mits his legislative program after his inauguration Jan. 20. In the House it appeared pos sible that a ruckus might be averted, but a scrap over the Sen ate's filibuster rule at the outset of the new Congress was accepted as inevitable. Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, slated to become Democratic lead er in the new Senate, is expected to let the battle run its course for a while but. if necessary, to step in with a tabling motion aimed at culling it off. While Mansfield has advocated1 modification of the present rule, he has taken the position that the proper time to do it is later in the session after committee con sideration. Mansfield held out the hope that in any event the actual start of the Senate battle would be de ferred until Wednesday under an agreement not to interfere with the customary amenities on t h e opening day following the swear ing in of new senators. Army Shows New Weapon WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army has made public a picture of a new battlefield weapon that fires an atomic bomb small enough to be lifted by one man. The bulbous bomb has four fins and is about the size of a wastepaper basket. In the picture It is perched at the end of a launching tube mounted on a jeep. The Army said the weapon, called the Davy Crockett, also can be launched from a tripod that can be carried by two or three soldiers. Tie weapon's power is secret, but it is understood to be some thing less than one kiloton the equivalent of 1.000 tons of TNT. The first atomic bombs had a power" of 20 kilotons and hydrogen bombs can be the equivalent of more than 15 million tons of TNT. The Army said "the warhead packs a tremendous force yet has a small enough effective radius that troops firing it, nearby troops and civilian population are not en dangered by -blasts. Radioactive fallout danger is minimized." Experts said soldiers can stand tflty two miles from a Davy Crockett explosion without danger. Weather High Sunday 31 Low but night It Precip. past U hours Since Oct. 1 Same period last year l.M Eastern Oregon Temperatures averaging near normal with slight warming trend. Showers mostly of snow likely about Thursday and Saturday. Highs generally J . it by Thursday; lows mostly la 20s. Same Old Troubles Fating Neiv Year By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS That little boy in diapers the cartoonists use for the new year has arrived again, bringing with him the usual package of fun and frenzy, wonder and woe. As housewives swept up the last of the confetti today they faced a year in which many of the troubles would be just continuations of 1960's problems. In the Asian kingdom of Laos. Communist-led rebels captured important ground in the heart of the country. The United States considered the situation so grave that it called for the earliest possi ble meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Council to consider the crisis. ' In Algeria, bitter guerilla war fare dragged on between the Mos lem nationalists and the French, and death did not take a new year's holiday. In the Congo, chaos and civil war ruled. The first day of 1961 saw opposing factions of Congo lese troops clashing in an incon clusive small-arms battle. Those were only a few of the world's trouble spots. Perhaps to arm themselves for the problems ahead, many mil lions of people in many parts of the world chose New Year s Day as a time for prayer and medita tion. President-elect John F. Kennedy attended mass Sunday in West Palm Beach, Fla., and joined in a prayer for divine guidance of the nation. He and Soviet Premier Khrush chev exchanged messages ex pressing the- hope that peace and goodwill might replace the long standing tensions between the two countries. , ' Khrushchev's subjects, enduring another frigid Russian winter, got another message that must have warmed many a Muscovite heart in a quite different fashion. French actress Brigitte Bardot Snow. Cold Hit North By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It was cold and snowy across the northern two-thirds of the na tion today. Stormy weather which ham mered sections of the Northeast on New Year's Day diminished during the night. Up to two feet of snow was reported in the Pul- aski-Pineville and Fulton areas of New York, near Lake Ontario. Upstate New York was hardest hit by the storm which sharply curtailed travel on highways and by air. The snow storm moved out of New England during the night but fairly heavy snow was reported in Maine. Lighter amounts hit north ern Vermont but skies appeared clearing in southern New England, Light snow continued during early morning over the northern Rockies, the northern Plains parts of, the upper and middle Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes region and the Appalach ians. Severe cold weather stung the eastern Dakotas and Minnesota with below zero temperatures. It was 23 below in International Falls, Minn., on the Canadian bor der. It was 93 degrees warmer in Miami, a mild 70. Another cold spot was Fraser, Colo., with -20. SP's Klamath Strikes Auto OAKRIDGE (AP) - The north bound Southern Pacific nasscn r train Klamath hit a n A smashed an automobile against a signal tower at an intersection here Saturday. Then it dragged the automobile 464 feet. The driver. Godfrey Crane, 45, suffered rib fractures, bruises and head cuts, but at - tendants at a Eugene hospital! said he was in fair condition. The train's engineer, Henry Darrah of Eugene, said he was traveling at 40 miles an hour when the collision occurred. U.0? C3S.LI33ARY CCi!P. NfeMisPAPSR sscrio:i GN , SEFi AMD DOCUMENTS DIV. ' EUJSiiE.ORSa; Price Tea Cents 22 Page sent an autographed picture to the mass circulation magazine Ogon- yok, which printed it along with her greetings to Soviet fans. In Italy, Romans and Neapoli tans were still recovering from their custom of setting off fire crackers and throwing old crock ery into the street at midnight, An estimated 200 persons were in jured in the frolic. The street cleaners went on emergency duty to tidy up. Europeans In general concen trated on forgetting their troubles. even if the price sometimes was high. At Monte Carlo, 1.600 celeb rities and -others paid $60 each not counting the champagne to celebrate at the Hotel de Paris, One of the minor wonders of the new year happened right in the staid New York suburb of Bed ford Hills. Early New Year's Day, police got a call from a motor ist who said there was a lion shivering on a snowbank on route 117. . They wondered about the mo torist's sobriety. But they checked up anyway, and found a genuine lion actually a baby lioness. Richard Hall, an employe of a local pet show, had brought the tame lion to a children's party and it got away. Police finally chased it off the snowbank into Hall's waiting arms. Leaflets Ask Cuba Revolt HAVANA, Cuba (UPI)-A small plane swept undetected over Pi- nar del Rio Sunday and dropped thousands of leaflets urging Cu bans to overthrow the govern ment of Tremier Fidel Castro. Anti-aircraft batteries sighted the aircraft when it returned northward from the province west of Havana and fired at the plane, but failed to bring it down. Cuban authorities said the plane apparently turned off its engine and glided over the city of Pinar del Rio. Castro's regime celebrated the second anniversary of its increas ingly radical revolution , New Year's Day with an ostentatious show of military strength. The government warned of an imminent military invasion" from the United States and put on a show of strength with mod ern equipped militiamen and rev olutionary army units. Thousands of Cubans, who were urged by the Castro regime to honor the date" of the over throw of Fulgencio Batista's gov ernment, responded with a record turnout for a huge parade and mass rally in the municipal square Saturday. Castro started a new invasion scare over the weekend, accusing the United States of planning mil itary action. He charged that the alleged construction . of Soviet rocket launching pads would be used as an excuse for interven tion. , . The bearded Cuban leader ush ered in the third year of his re gime by ordering general mobili zation of all armed forces and militias to defend against the " vasion." Checker Champ Stumps Machine DALLAS. Tex. (AP)-The Dal las fire department's champion checker player battled an elec tronic, brain to a draw this week end but he won't fool the $1,400,- 000 electronic dale processing sys tem again with the same play. After losing the first game to the IBM 704. Capt. O. G. Sartain came back wi,h 8 new approach lnat stumped the machine. When the machine had a king and four players left while Sartain had a king and five players the printer onnounced "704 concedes de 1181 - feat. But it will never be beaten again that way," an IBM expert said. "Now the scries is recorded on tape and the machine will counteract the play if anyone I tries that method again." H" f" "in '!!!' "m1'tS ' ' J THE FIRST ARRIVAL of the new year was Michael Ray, shown her with his mother, Mrs. Raymond (Roiella) Hinihaw of Keno. Michael arrived at 12:14 a.m. Sunday, Jan. I, and appears to bo all let to make this a groat year for himself and his parents. Gendarmes Patrol Belgium Capital BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI) Police and army trucks patrolled Brussels today and strong forces of gendarmes were concentrated near the royal palace and Parlia ment to head off any trouble over the government's economic "au sterity" program. , Several hundred strikers "gath ered .outside the Socialist Party headquarters this morning, but no organized demonstrations developed.-. . , . . , ! ) -, - The capital was quiet and most streets were deserted in the sec ond day of a New Year holiday. All stores were closed, but the railroad stations strike-bound last week were open. Streetcars, bus es and taxis functioned normally. Although Socialist strike leaders called for new demonstrations by rank and file union members, the public holiday apparently led most of the strikers to remain at home rather than demonstrate in the streets. Belgium has been plagued for two weeks by strikes, demonstra tions and riots over the "auster ity" program brought on by the loss of the Congo. The government, harassed by increasing sabotage and leftist threats of a 'general strike and march on Parliament Tuesday, disclosed that about 40 strikers '' ' ' ' ' ' ' " ", .''" ' ' y .wni.j'.2MM..i':.-c'i.. .iwt.yTWTYliynY fTf j P 1 jt II K a 1 1 f w . THE KUHS IAND steps out smartly at the East-West Shrine game in San Francisco Saturday. This view of the KU musical group was taken by Herald and Newt Photo grapher Don Kettler from high in the stands of the class! KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON', ssmm were arrested in a widespread crackdown in provincial cities over the weekend. This brought the total arrests in the two weeks since the crisis erupted to about 60. The new arrests included 14 In Charlcroi, 16 In Liege. in Ver- viers and several- in Namur and other provincial towns. . Most of J those arrested were charged with sabotaging railroads and buses, smashing plate-glass windows or assaulting police. Leftist strike leaders have called for massive demonstrations in Brussels and throughout the nation Tuesday when Parliament meets after a two-week Christ mas recess to resume debate on the government's austerity pack age' bill which sparked the pres ent trouble. The Communists added fuel to the explosive situation by calling for. a general strike, while other militant leftists circulated secret orders for a "march on Brussels" Tuesday. Shooting Times OREGON - January 2 7:05 a.m. 4:30 p.m. CALIFORNIA January 2 7:04 a.m. 4:44 p.m. O CD J KJJWI .MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1961 Keno Baby Takes Derby The first new youngster born at Klamath Valley Hospital in 1961 arrived just 14 minutes past the midnight hour Sunday, Jan. 1, and promptly claimed the prizes offered for this distinctive honor In the Herald and News Stork Derby. ' ' I NewesLcitizen was Michael Ray Hinshaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hinshaw, Keno. Gifts from Klamath Falls busi nesses include a box of SO con gratulatory cigars for dad to pass out to .his friends. The cigars are from Payless Drug. A month's supply of milk comes from the Klamath Basin Grade A Milk Pro ducers. . Other gifts include case of 48 cans ol Gerber s strained baby food from the Market. Basket; a $5 gift certificate from Bon Ba zaar's baby wear department; an engraved baby cup from Beach's Jewelers; a Mickey Mouse feed ing set from Woods Drug; , two free tickets to the Tower or Es quire Theater plus S3 to take care of baby sitting fees; a deluxe diaper bag from Big Y Mar ket; a $5 gift certificate from Miller's Children's Department; a sterling silver baby cup from Rickys; a pair of Little Yankee shoes from the House of Shoes; a baby blanket from the Fashion Villa, and three dozen gauze dia pers from the Cherub Diaper Serv ice. 3 a f J ti -Vvr" " MITT t Keiar Stadium. The band is shown s they formed th letters EAST at en end ef th field. Headed by LaMar Jensen, shown left foreground, th band performed dur Ine; halftim. . Telephone mm Ike Waits For Additional On Extent Of Communist WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States moved cautiously today toward possible Allied mili tary intervention against Commu nist forces in Laos. But top U.S. officials hoped the spreading civil war crisis could be checked by diplomatic action. President Eisenhower kept in close touch with State and De fense Department chiefs through out the New Year holiday. Offi cials of the incoming Kennedy ad ministration were informed of de velopments. Eisenhower delayed final deci sions on intervention, pending more complete information on the reported invasion of Laos by Com munist, forces from North Viet Nam. Officials here assumed their purpose was to reinforce native leftists and Communist forces striving to crush the pro-Western government at Vientiane. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter arranged to confer with his Kennedy administration suc cessor, Dean Rusk, this morning. Preparations for possible U.S. military action appeared to be under way: . 1. The aircraft carrier Lexing ton was reported sailing south from Hong Kong, where it visited last week, to the Southeast Asian crisis area. 2. Two troop transports, Paul Revere and Monticello, it was learned here, are also within easy sailing distance of Laos with a landing team of 1,000 Marines aboard. 2. Troop-carrying planes of the Tactical Air Command "are being rrnnsitinned for anv eventuality.' the Air Force said in Washington, This word came Sunday night after disclosure that Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina and Sewart AFB near. Nashville, Tenn;, had been ordered on alert. . -Big C130 troop carriers operate ANOTHER DUFFER NEW YORK (UPI) Two old friends from service days were playing golf at Monterey, Calif., last Memorial Day. , On the 15th hole, one of the golf ers drove to the green with a No. iron and the ball headed uner ringly toward the pin. ; 'Go in!" yelled one goner. . 'No, no!" shouted the man who had sent the ball on its way. After the ball stopped a few inch es short of the cup. according to the current Look magazine, the golfer who had wanted the ball to plop into the cup. asked the other why he had snouieo no, no." ' "If I had made a hole-in-one," said Sen. John F. Kennedy,- "It would make the front page, and people would say 'Oh, just an other golfer trying to get into the White House!" 1 ' o TU 4-8111 No. . 657 J w n from both bases to ferry troops from Ft. Bragg, N.C., and Ft. Campbell, Ky anywhere they may be needed. On the diplomatic side Ambas sador Llewellyn Thompson was officially notified by the State De partment of U.S. alarm at the re ported movement of Communist forces into Laos from North Viet Nam. He was expected to warn the Soviet government at the first opportunity of the seriousness with which the United States regards the situation. In another diplomatic step the United States called for a meeting of the eight-nation Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Council to discuss the crisis. The council meets in Bangkok, Thailand, and instructions for the meeting went to Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson, American envoy there. The State Department also said Sunday: "We have further in structed our ambassadors to all SEATO capitals to inform the gov ernments to which they are ac credited of these new develop ments in Laos and to explain the United States' view that these de velopments warrant consultations by the SEATO Council. 'We have begun preliminary consultations with some of our allies here in Washington." Undersecretary of State Living ston T. Merchant conferred at the State Department with British Reds Launch Threaten Laos Capital VIENTIANE. Laos (AP) The pro-American government of Pre mier Prince Boon oum saia com munist forces made advances over the weekend and seized Laos' strategic plain, creating a threat to the royal seat of Luang Pro- bang and this administrative cap! tal. In a three-pronged attack, the Reds captured the plain, its air field and the northern provincial capital of Phong Saly, the Boun government announced. Army de fenders were driven back to Xiengkhouang, about 100 miles northeast of Vientiane and about the same distance southeast of Luang Probang. Many Vientiane residents who could afford to do so were leaving the city but there were no appar ent signs of panic. Streets were almost deserted. For the first time since Dee. 15 when leftist forces were driven from Vientiane, armored cars were seen rumbling through the streets. In Bangkok, American sources sid 60 American officials have been evacuated from Vientiane to Nonghai in northeast Thailand and that 200 others making up almost all the Americans in the Laotian capital have been ordered to leave. The evacuees were ferried across the Mekong River, which separates Laos and Thailand. Information Minister Bouavan Norasing said the rebel attack i being supported by Red China and North Viet Nam. But he waa un Holiday Death Count Reaches '10 In Stato By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The New Year's holiday toll is up to 10 In Oregon. Six persons died Sunday from traffic crashes three of them in' single crash. Four others were killed in the crash of a light airplane Saturday. Three were killed in the plunge of a car down a 60-foot embank ment beside the North Umpqua Highway Sunday. Police said the driver apparently missed a curve there. Killed outright were Shelby An derson, 19, Gary Person, 17, and Gary Dean Spangler, 17, all from Roseburg. Another car skidded on an Icy road near Vernonia. Mrs. Marion Thomas of Vernonia was killed. Her husband, who was driving, suffered minor injuries. J. B. Payne, 43, Yachats, was killed as his pickup truck ran off the Coast Highway and into ditch Just south of Yachats. On th eastern wtsUru Weather Northern Californla-OecMlaasi rain likely la extreme nor Ik We setday spreading aver snots ef area by Friday; snow la moaa talna; temperature near aormiL Information Intervention Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia and with Claude Lebel, the rank ing French diplomat here. In addition to the three big West ern powers the members of SEATO are Australia, New Zea land, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan. Rusk, the secretary of state designate, was kept informed of developments over the weekend and he is understood to have re-' ported to President-elect John F. Kennedy. Whether all the talks here and in other capitals were serving to bring the United States, Britain and France any closer together on the Laotian crisis was an open question. Both London and Paris have shown much less alarm than Washington about the situation; both are reported to favor a much softer policy in dealing with it. A news dispatch from London Sunday night quoted the British Foreign Office as saying it had no firm evidence of an invasion of Laos by North Vietnamese Com munist forces. The present critical stage of the Laos civil war began to develop Friday when Vientiane, capital of the pro-Western regime of Pre mier Boun Oum, reported that seven battalions of Communist ' troops had crossed the border from North Viet Nam to reinforce the pro-Communist Pathet Lao group. Big Attack; able to offer proof of this and Western observers maintained ra- ervajiea about .nls claims Laos, had been invaded by seven well equipped Red Vietnamese bat talions, i -During the fighting for trie plain area, the Plaine des Jarres, Boua van said "if it falls, Vientiane, Luang Probang and Thakbet- (province), are threatened.' : , He said fighting on the Plain des Jarres "developed rapidly and , our troops at 11:30 p.m., Satur day withdrew to Xiengkhouang city to avoid heavy artillery fire." In Phong Saly, he said, the gar-. ernment garrison "fought bravely until it exhausted all ammunition. All were taken prisoner." Bouavan said the situation in the city of Xiengkhouang "is not -desperate because the whole popu lation has arisen against foreign aggression. Red China's Radio . Peiping claimed Sunday night the city had been captured by pro-Communist Pathet Lao forces led by rebel Capt. Kong Le. Bouavan said the government losses were not known. ' Peiping x radio said nearly two government battalions were wiped out. . Bouavan raised the possibility Laos would ask for U.S. military help. - "If the invasion continues to the point where our independence is threatened," he said, "we will make a solemn appeal for help fa) preserve our independence." Portland Mr, teota Barbara Lewis, 54, Portland, was struck down by an automobile as she walked across a street Saturday night. She died in a hospital Sunday. The car driver said he did not see her until the last moment. Her death was the 467th record ed in Oregon by the Associated Press from traffic crashes in I960. That compared to 497 killed the previous year. - Federal agencies meanwhile be gan an Investigation to try t learn the cause of the arrplan crash that took the lives of four if persons near Estacada Saturday. Killed were David Lee Enger, 21 and his 23-year-old wife of Troutdale, and Everett Wayn Boyd, 28, and his 22-year-old wtf of Portland. ' They took off from the Trou. dal airport Saturday morning for a weekend vacation at Reno, They crashed amidst snow clouds -In a wooded canyon. Enger the pilot -
