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Newspaper Page Textcoo. 1m The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Preparing for his inauguration next week and wanting to avoid possible conflict of interest, President-elect Kennedy, although not required by law to do so, re cently disposed of all his stock holdings and reinvested the-pro ceeds in government bonds fed eral, state and municipal. This disclosure was made to newsmen this morning by Pierre Salinger, the President elect's new secretary. Salinger added: "The only holdings he has today are bonds and real estate. His direct real estate holdings con-1 cist of his homes in Washington and Hyannis Port, Massachu setts." Questioned by the newsmen v ho pull no punches when a good ttory is in the wind Salinger went on to disclose that President-elect Kennedy's TOTAL hold ings now consist of such bonds, plus the houses he owns in Wash ington and Hyannis Port, and three trust funds set up .for him and his brothers and sisters by their father, Joseph P. Kennedy. He added: "The President-elect's net in come from these trusts set up in 1026, 1936 and 1949 amounts to about $100,000 annually, AF TER taxes. The income BEFORE taxes, reportedly, is about $500, 000 a year." Even the President of the Unit ed States, you see, feels the bite of the tax collector. The President is exempt from the federal law dealing with con flict of interest which is as it should be. Some 20 centuries ago. Caesar said: "Caesar's wife ought to be above suspicion." The lame principle holds in the case of the President of the United States. If the time ever comes when we feel we must pass a law re quiring the President to divest himself of all property that might be enhanced in value by his de cisions in matters of public pol icy, we will be in a bad way. This conflict of interest law hits other federal officials in the pocketbook. Under its provisions, Secretary of Defense designate Robert S. McNamara had to get rid of his stock in the Ford Mo tor Company, of which he was present.. He said the transac tion would represent a potential personal loss to him of between two million and three million dol lars over a period of years. One of his predecessors as sec retary of defense, Charles S. Wil son, was caught in the same pre dicament. In order to serve his country in a post involving heavy responsibility and paying a sal ary of $25,000 a year, he had to dispose of his holdings in Gen eral Motors at a heavy personal sacrifice. This is the problem: The government of the United Slates is the biggest business in the world. To handlo it properly, we need men who have carried heavy responsibility, who know by experience how to handle the problems involved in BIGNESS. Should we make it so COSTLY for people of that type to serve their country that they will come to feel that they CAN'T AFFORD IT? That's a question that deserves a lot of careful thought. Tense Haiti Holds Clergy PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Unconfirmed reports for more arrests of Catholic priests and a scries of noise bombs added to tension in Port au Prince today as striking students prepared for possible clashes when schools re open Monday. President Francois Duvalier's regime, which expelled Roman Catholic Bishop Remy Augustin this week and earlier deported Archbishop Francois Poirier for allegedly aiding the strike, was denounced as a police state in student leaflets calling for demo cratic elections. Censorship under martial law prevented Haitian newspapers and radio from telling the pre dominantly Catholic population in this Negro republic of the Vati can's excommunication of those responsible for the expulsions. Haitians learned of it from the radio of the neighboring Domini can Republic. The papal nuncio called a meet ing of five bishops from the prov inces where unconfirmed reports said more priests have been ar rested. University students have been en strike since November in pro test against the arrest of 20 stu dents accused of distributing Communist propaganda. Duvalier freed those arrested last month Noise bombs at three schools Wis week emphasized the de mand. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Mostly cloudy with a little rala at times today and tonight. Partly cloudy Saturday, High 40-46. Low 15-30. High yesterday Low last Bight Preclp. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 Same period last year Mutiny Congo 's LEOPOLDVILLE. The C o n g o (AP) Congolese soldiers were re- ported to have mutinied today at the camp where ex-Premier Pa- trice Lumumba is imprisoned and wild rumors swept the capital that Lumumba is free. The soldiers reportedly locked up their officers at Camp Hardy after a riot over pay. Excitement swept Leopoldville at news that Lumumba may again be at liberty. 23 Exposed In Idaho Atom Blast IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) The Atomic Energy Commission says 23 men were exposed to ra diation after last week's explosion of a nuclear reactor, but checks show no clinical symptoms in any of them. The blast on the AEC eastern Idaho testing station Jan. 3 killed three young servicemen. The commission said in Thursday's re port that one victim lived morel than two hours after the explosion. The 23 men were exposed to ra diation while working in relay teams to recover the bodies and assess the damage inside the cyl indrical reactor building. They wore protective clothing. The blast killed Army Spec. 5 John A. Byrnes, 27; Spec. 4 Rich' ard L. McKinley, 22, and Navy Electrician l.C. Richard C. Legg, 26. They were getting the reactor a prototype of a mobile heat and power unit for the armed forces- ready to start up after a 10-day shutdown. " -- ' v The AEC didn't say which man lived for a time after the blast. Show Tower For Massive New Rocket CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The tower from which missile- men will service the Saturn super space rocket is a massive, com plex structure reaching 310 feet into the sky. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration showed itj off to newsmen for the first time Thursday, and they were im pressed. The 28-story steel tower domi nates the Cape Canaveral skyline, dwarfing the 115-foot tall Atlas and Titan service gantries and the shorter structures for the Thor, Jupiter, Polaris, Redstone and Minuteman The Saturn rocket, which will begin testing here next fall, is the United Stales' biggest hope in the next few years for placing multi- ton payloads into orbit, landing instrument packages on the moon, Mars and Venus, and hurling manned spaceships around the moon and returning them to earth. The Saturn tower was built by Kaiser Steel Co., for the Army Corps of Engineers. It cost $4 million. It is completely self-supporting unit with its own power station, heating, air conditioning and light ing facilities, three elevators and five enclosed moveable platforms from which the launch crew can service the 230-foot rocket at dif ferent levels Each platform is the size of an average three-room house. Accused Couple Held By Police NEW ORLEANS (AP) V'orderod the Cuban ambassador i. 1 .,.'Amn u.niulL.j ik. Cm!......, ,h.r nt hituino a t5 Don Ull vncifev.- vi j...0 - t i.u.j , - - l a airplane with a bad check, are charging ihc were connected wilhstecl helmets prevented any vio being held as fugitives here. j pro-Castro demonstrations andlencc. Police ideiililied tnem as uus- sel Smith. 34, and Myrna Sim-I mons. 25. haicm. ore. roncc sain inursoay nigm ny Uruguay s they told them they met in Port-1 man governing council, which re land, fell in love and started portedly is split 5-4 against an traveling together. They said they had been in 24 jMdieS irc peal iwui iiiviiiiu. n. Ik. n.,1 in.., mnnlkc Detectives said mat bmitn aa-i mitted buying the plane in Or-! lando. Fla. They quoted him as isaying that he thought the check jwas good. ocN.ur.tso toman :t. Price Tea Cent 14 Sveeps Ranks Ferry boats across the Congo River at Brazzaville, in the for mcr French Congo, were packed throughout the day with Europe ans and Congolese. The flurry was symptomatic of the uneasiness in this capital whenever Lumumba is men tioned. There was no official confirma tion that Lumumba actually is free. Telephone lines to Thysville where Camp Hardy is situated were cut. Lumumba was locked up In Camp Hardy Dec. 2. He was re captured during an abortive at tempt to reach his loyal strong' hold at Stanleyville. While the pro-Communist ex. premier has been brooding in jail his followers have taken control of Oriental and Kivu provinces and thrust into North Katanga. The Lumumba rebels now control over a third of the Congo and have strong support in other areas. Lumumba took over as the Con go's first premier June 30 when the Belgians granted the colony independence. In his inaugural speech he accused the Belgians of inflicting sufferings on the Congo lese people for 80 years. Within a few days, the Coneo lese army mutinied against con tinued command by Belgian offi cers. Lumumba s opponents cnarge he incited the army to rise. The mutiny created panic among the Belgians remaining in the Congo and they quit the coun try in droves. Hammarskjold To Fire Back UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) U.N. ..Secretary-General Dag iHjramakjald flewyKtack from: Africa today to answer Soviet charges that he helped Belgium organize an attack on pro- uimumoa torces in the Congo from the neighboring U.N. trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi. After visits to the Coneo and South Africa, Hammarskjold abandoned plans to go on to India and hurried back for the continua tion of council debate on the Congo. The council began debate Thurs day on a Soviet complaint that Belgium helped troops of Col. Joseph Mobutu, the Congo army cniei, mount an attack from Ruanda-Urundi Jan. 1 against troops holding the Congo's Kivu Prov ince for Mobutu's prisoner, de posed Premier Patrice Lumumba The Lumumbist rebels rerwlIeH the attack. Goldberg Gets Senators' Nod , WASHINGTON (AP)-The Sen-1 ate Labor Committee approved the designation of Arthur J. Gold berg as secretary of labor today before the official nomination even reached the Senate. In open session, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., proposed that the committee waive the usual rules and approve Goldberg im mediately. The other senators; unanimously voted for Goldwa-j ter's motion Sen. Lister Hill. D-Ala., chair man of the committee, said there would be no further vote. When President-elect John F. Kennedy sends the nomination to the Sen ate after his inauguration next Friday, the committee simply will tell the Senate that it already has approved Goldberg's appointment. Uruguay MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay AP ine Uruguayan government nas .roloru mil a( Iho rnnntrv 3 111 9. street lignis. The expulsion order was voted outright break in diplomatic rcla tions with Prime Minister Fidel ir.FlHt'. nifima valvi ivuiit. The decision declaring lunan Ambassador Mark) Garcia chaustcgui and Soviet First retary Mihail K. Samilov personal The man was killed in a fight non grata brought still anotherlthat spread over 20 blocks Tucs - Panes I 'WK1 -r-t ' f KLAMATH GOLDEN GEM potatoes will be featured at one of the pre-inauguration banquets in Washington, D.C., next week. Here, County Judge R. R. (Bob) Walker, second from right, displays on of SO gift boxes of Klamath potatoes on their way back east. Judge Walker will be the county's official representative at the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect John F. Kennedy. Also proud of the local potatoes are, left to right. Chamber of Commerce President Bob Kent; Ned Putnam, who will fly Walker to Washington, and Karl Dehlinger, potato packager. GOP Senator Critical Of Selection For Attorney WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen said today the selection of Robert F. Kennedy to be attor ney general marks a departure from the idea of putting a sea soned lawyer in the office. "I think the country has always felt that the attorney general should be a legal scholar and learned in the law," the Illinois senator said at a Judiciary Com mittee hearing on the appoint ment. President-Elect's s$ets Estimated At $10 Million PALM BEACH. Flai (AP) - President-elect John F. Kennedy appears to have investment assets valued at perhaps up to $10 mil lion. This was indicated Thursday night when it was disclosed that Kennedy has converted all of his investments over which he had control into government bonds- federal, state and municipal. Pierre Salinger, his press sec retary, to.d newsmen in response to questions that the president elect's total holdings now consist of such bonds, plus the houses he owns in Washington and at Hyan nis Port, Mass., and three trust funds set up for him and ' his brothers and sisters by their fa ther, Joseph P. Kennedy. Salinger said the president elect's income from these trusts -set up in 1926, 1936 and 1949 amounts to about $100,000 annual ly, after taxes. The income before taxes reportedly is about $500,000 a year. Assuming interest at the rate ot Austerity Plan Voted BRUSSELS. Belgium (AP) - Th Inu-pr house of Par ament aonroved 115-90 today the govern - mnt'c aneipritv nrnprflnv birdeti of a 25-day-old general strike called by the Socialists. Later approval by the Senate is consid ered a formality. The Socialists opposed the plan bitterly, saying severe cuts in social wclfart services and higher taxes will fall heaviest on the workers. Expels Cuba Envoy (demonstration by admirers oflday night when about 1,000 Castro lasiro. n. crowa oi auuiu '.""viadhcronts tiled to break up an gathered in Montevideo's streets, Iitl.h...;., ir..U V.ntnM nnl" 3IIUUllll; .annua uu . A Inrre nl 1 rind nolit-fl wcarinff 1 no governing council aaca an- er police stormed into Communist headquarters here Wednesday, and arrested 139 persons and. seized documents Officials said the raid was on a judge's order to arrest persons u-hn hnal 3H an i.radrA n.rli.an inim wva. an miirvBu po. iijoii to ocain in ironi oi tne ncanquar- In-iters. So fai no one has been Scc-jcharged with the death. Mini ssmifii Iitet KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Democratic members of the committee quickly sprang to the defense of Kennedy, 35-ycar-old brother and campaign manager of President-elect John F. Ken nedy. Sens. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-NC, and John A. Carroll, D-Colo., said they had been struck by a strong parallel between the experience of Kennedy and William P. Rogers attorney general in the- outgoing Eisenhower administration. Both Robert Kennedy and Hog about 4 to 5 per cent, the funds could, have a principal value ofi close to $10 million. Kennedy has disclosed value of investments he has converted into government bonds. His home in Washington's fash ionable Georgetown area re portedly is valued at about $100,- 000. The Hyannis Port place is an additional acset. Salinger refused to give figures on Kennedy's holdings beyond the income realized from the trust funds. The three trusts are Irrevocable which means the president-elect! has no control over investment of the principal. His mother report edly is one of the trustees. ROTC Wins In Voting CORVALLIS (AP) - The Ore gon Stale College Faculty Senate voted 38-26 Thursday against a motion to make ROTC military training at the college a volun tary program. All male students now are re- io compicie a nasic mm. :" ""tuny vuie, m d- - Tl r li.. ...i. r ,te. cans tor mis program io ne retained. The matter has been under dis cussion by faculty and student groups here the past two weeks. The student organization has not yet arrived at a decision. The faculty recommendation will be forwarded to the Jan. 23- 24 stale Board of Higher Educa tion curriculum meeting. i r ., , . , ' ' ;corcs weru "IJUreO. The pro-Castro demonstrations have been building up here while the government dcbaicd whether to break relations with Cuba. In addition to the United States, Peru, Guatemala and the Domini can Republic have cut their diplo matic link w ith the Castro regime. Haiti. Nicaragua, Paraguay and fit fimki. h.,va JtallnH IhAir am. wiviiinia .iu.i. vui-.u ...v.. b... nassadors home irom Havana, Castro repeatedly has urged t h a t jlhe masses in other Latin - Amcrl - can countrks adopt his revolution ary tactics. FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1961 Kennedy General ers are former counsels ot the Senate Investigations subcommit tee. The hearing on Kennedy's selec tion to be a member of the new Cabinet got off to a crisp, tense start in a jam-packed hearing room. Unlike oilier Cabinet selections who have been called ;for ques tioning in advance of the formal submission of their nominations Kennedy was sworn as a witness. Dirksen got permission to lead off the questioning and began by reading newspaper editorials and other press comments critical of Robert Kennedy s selection .. .to pcad the Jus' ice 'Department; - The prospect was for some Re publican needling but no serious challenge to Kennedy as the man to head the government's far- flung law enforcement activities None of the committee's Re publicans said they intended to oppose Robert Kennedy's appoint ment or try to obstruct Senate confirmation. Appointment Approved WASHINGTON (AP)-The Sen ate Judiciary Committee today approved without objection the selection of Robert F. Kennedy to be attorney general in the Cabinet of his brother, President-elect John F. Kennedy. The committee acted immedi ately after a two-hour hearing at which soma of the Republican members made a point of the 35- year-old Kennedy s lack ot ex perience in the private practice of law. Dirksen said Republicans plan extensive questioning to compile a record to which they can point if Kennedy later stubs his toe. The hearing on Kennedy, prob ably the most controversial of any of the new Cabinet appointments was called in advance of official submission of his nomination. Other Senate hearings were called today on Orville L. Free man to be secretary of agricul ture, Arthur J. Goldberg to be secretary of labor, Abraham A Ribicoff to be secretary of wcl fare and Stewart L. UdalL to be secretary of the interior. Unemployment Rises During Previous Month WASHINGTON fAP) - Unem ployment rose by half a million in December to 4,500,000 highest December total since 1940. Employment declined by 1,173,- 000 to 66,01)0.000. Announcing these figures today, the Labor Department also re ported that the rate of unemploy ment to the total work force rose from t.S per cent in November to 6.8 per cent. This is the highest December rate since 1940. The percentages are seasonally ad justed. Seymour Wolfbein, Labor De partment manpower expert, said that the idle total Is going up fur ther this winter. , Telephone ONE DEAD, SIX tst faumi Ships h (Ehmhk RUmth U.S.-Armed Pilots Hit Rebs Again VIENTIANE. Laos (AP) - The Laotian government's four newly acquired planes from the United States pounded the pro-Commu nist rebels' artillery positions TO miles north of Vientiane today for the third straight day. No reports were available so far on the damage but military experts said the Laotian pilots- trained in France and Thailand probably would need more of fly ing to sharpen their aim. So far there was no sign of air retaliation from the Soviet Union, Communist China or North Vict Nam, which support the Pathet Lao rebels. But Western intelli gence sources reported an old model Soviet spotter plane, was observed directing rebel artillery fire on Monday, the day before the United States delivered the four propeller-driven trainer planes the government forces arc using. Use of the planes for attack missions raised fears among Brit- isUand..Erench diplomats ..here that the Soviets or Red Chinese would supply combat planes for use against the anti-Communist forces. i The planes were reported at tacking in the area of the Nam Lie River, 70 miles north of Vien tiane, where two companies of government forces were reported engaged with a rebel force of about the same size. Army sources said Premier Boun Oum's government is ap plying . steady pressure on this front in an effort to link up with government units pushing down from Luang Prabang, the royal capital. States Need More Funds WASHINGTON (API-Washing ton and Oregon will need nearly a billion dollars more in federal- state money for superhighways before the nation's 41,000-mile in terstate network is completed by the mid-1970s. Estimated totals, of which the federal government pays 90 per cent, were listed by Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller Thursday as including: Washington, $535,893,000; Ore gon, 1446,577,000. He told Congress the total net work cost is expected to be $41 billion, his estimates were on a stale-by-stale basis, and will de termine the actual distribution of federal aid funds to each slate. SHRINE CLUI ACTIVITIES in 1961 will bo sparked by Don Pholpt who wot installed president of the Klamath organization at the regular monthly dinner moating at the Willard Hotel last week. Shown in picture oro the officers whp will bock hit of forts. In the back row, left fo right, are members of the board of director, Ledd Hoyt, Wallace Thompson, Keith O'Hair, Dean Collet and Bob Walkor. In tho front row or Wet Guderian, treasurer; Hubert Totton, secretary) Protidont Phelpt, end Stewart let tiger, vie president. ' su f , r TU 4-8111 No. fiiSJ MISSING . . . ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) capsized in mountainous seas boat they tried to pull to safety at the mouth of the Co lumbia River Thursday night. two fishermen were missing body of another Coast Guardsman was washed ashore. Cutters searched for the in a howling storm, but reported finding only debris and two lifejackets. Breakers were running up to 30 feet high today as the search went on. Three Coast Guardsmen nig waters and taken to safety. Another beat his way through the breakers and was found by a shore patrol. He was Identified as Gordon E. Huggins, 22, Vancouver, Wash., and was reported suffering from shock. The sea man whose body was washed ashore was identified as John Culp, 32, Hammond, Ore. The two Coast Guard i vessels that capsized were stricken as they went to the aid of the Mermaid, a dis abled crab boat, and its two man crew. The Mermaid pulled one Coast Guardsman aboard. Then a third Coast Guard ship took the fishing boat in. tow. But the line parted and the Mermaid was swept away. Authorities said they feared it sank in the huge breakers at the river's mouth. s The surviving Coast Guard ves sel .picked up three seamen from its stricken sister ships and. though damaged itself, got them to safety. The Coast Guard gave this ac count: The 40 foot long Mermaid, manned by Bert and Stanley Bergman of Ilwaco, Wash., broke its rudder when the sale started waves rising off the river mouth. A 40-foot Coast Guard boat from Cape Disappointment on the Washington shore of the Columbia got the Mermaid in tow, but could not make it across the huge waves in the river entrance. Out to help came the 52-foot Coast Guard lifeboat, the Tri umph, from Pt. Adams on the Oregon shore of the Columbia. It had the Mermaid in tow when waves snapped the line. As the Triumph and the 40-foot Coast Guard boat maneuvered to try to save the Mermaid, waves capsized both Coast Guard boats. Another Coast Guard boat from Cape Disappointment a 36-footer which had been standing by res cued the three crewmen who had been aboard the 40-foot boat, There were six crewmen aboard the Triumph. One of them was pulled into the crab boat. The crab boat then was taken into tow, only to have waves snap that line also and sweep the Mermaid away. The surviving 36-foot Coast Guard boat was partly disabled by a huge breaker, but managed to work its way out to sea, where it put its three rescued men onto the Columbia River lightship. The Coast Guard said they are Gerald J. Murray, 26, Dixon, Mont., whose wife is at Ilwaco, Wash.; Terrence A. Lowe, 20, Snohomish, Wash., and Acta B, Weather Northern Ca 1 1 f r I a: Fair through Saturday except Central Valley fog and rain north of I'klah this afternoon and evening and again late Saturday; littla temperature change. Mt. Shasta . Siskiyou area; Cloudy through Saturday with rain likely tonight with snow above 5,000 feet; little tempera lure change. Two Coast Guard vessels that swept away a fishing Four Coast Guardsmen and and feared drowned. The men throughout the night were pulled from the swirl- Maxwell, 20, Kent, Wash. They were unhurt. Three Coast Guard boats and two airplanes searched the gala swept area through the night. Victims Listed SEATTLE (AP) The Coast Guard announced Friday the names of its men dead or missing in the. accident , involving thre vessels at the mouth of the Co lumbia River near Astoria, Ore. Dead John L. Culp, 32, boatswain' mate l.C, Hammond, Or. Missing John S. Hoban, 37, boatswain' mate 2.C., Independence. Mo. Joseph E. Petrin, 21, enginemaa 3.C., Ronton. Wash. Gordon F. Sussex. 21, seaman. Bellevue, Wash. Ralph E. Mace, 19, seaman, Rte. 1, Box 111, Vashon, Wash. , The Coast Guard said Gordon. E. Huggins, 22, engineman 3.C.. from Vancouver, Wash., the sur vivor found on the beach, was in good condition. . ' One of the missing Coast Guards men had been taken aboard the fishing boat Mermaid after two Coast Guard vessels had gone to her aid. The Coast Guard said it has not determined which man reached the Mermaid. 'Tiniest Baby Gains Weight PATERSON. N.J. (AP)-Tho tiniest baby ever born 'in St. Jo seph's Hospital is now three months old, weighs 8 pounds and 2 ounces, and it finally horn with her parents. Patricia Montalbetti, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Montalbetti, of Paterson, was born Oct. I. She weighed 24 ounces and was just 9 inches long. She left behind at the hospital a batch of medical charts that outweigh her.