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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1961)
In The- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As (his is written, President! Kennedy is just about to meet the two neutralist leaders who have been sent to Washington as emissaries from the conference of 24 neutral or "unaligned" nations that met in Belgrade I capital of Tito's Yugoslavia! some ten days ago. The two are President Sukarno of Indonesia and President Modi bo Keita of Mali. They have al ready delivered to President Ken nedy a letter calling for direct negotiations between him and Pre mier Khrushchev "to save the world from the dangers of a nu clear war." President JFK has arranged to meet them separately, taking on Keita first and Sukarno second. What about these emissaries? Keita of Mali is small pumpkins. His nation is so little that up to now he has received from us less than a million dollars in foreign aid. Sukarno is bigger game. He is president of the Indonesian Re public. He has had from us so far 479 million dollars in aid, .the third largest of all these "un aligned" nations, exceeded only by Yugoslavia which has had a trifle more than two billion dol lars, and India, which has had a trifle under two billions. At the Belgrade conference, Su karno was an ardent backer of Soviet policy and has been gen-! erally regarded as a strong com munist sympathizer. Who are these "unaligned" na tions? Let's take the space here to name them. They are: Yugoslavia, India, Indonesia, United Arab Republic, Cambodia Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan Lebanon, Ethiopia, Burma, Iraq Ceylon, Cuba, Sudan, Nepal, Sau di Arabia, Congo Republic, Ye men, Cyprus, Somali Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Mali. They are named here in the or der in which they have received foreign aid from us with Tito's Yugoslavia at the top with a little' over two billions and little Mali down at the bottom with an amount so small that it hasn't yet been added up. It is supposed to be somewhat less than a million which in these days is hardly cigarette money tor the big shots up at the top. Adding all the figures from Tito's two billions at the top down to little Mali's few hundred thous ands at the bottom, it comes to a total of Just over SIX BILLION DOLLARS. That is what we have paid these "unaligned" nations in foreign "aid." Over the years of the cold war, you have read the news from day to day. If, among these 24 neutrals, you can recall a SIN GLE ONE that has ever come out flatly ON OUR SIDE in ANY con troversy that has arisen, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. Almost without exception, theyl have leaned toward the commu nistswhich is natural enough in view of the fact that with few exceptions (one of the outstand ing ones being Tunisia) their nil ers are more in sympathy with despotic communism than with Western Democracy. That raises a question: Shall we call the six billions of our treasure we have shelled out to these 24 "unaligned" countries foreign aid? Or shall we be more realistic and call it TRIBUTE? Tribute is money paid to BUY FRIENDS or to BUY OFF ene mies. Looking through the list of countries that have received our bounty, it's pretty hard In escape the conclusion that the money we have been paying to them more nearly resembles tribute than friendly aid. WeatlA Klamath Falls and vicinity Mostly fair with variable high cloudiness through Thursday. Low 48-TK. High 80-8S. High yesterday 79 Low last night 49 Precip. 1st 24 hours .00 Since Oct. 1 1J.07 Same period last year 9.27 Neutralist Meets Set WASHINGTON AP -President Kennedy, in a last-minute switch in plans today, arranged separate conferences with two neutralist emissaries instead of a joint meet ing with the two. The White House said the change in plans was requested bv (he two visitors, President Sukar no of llonesia and President Mi rtibo Keita of Mali. No additional reason was given. V.Of ORE.LIBSART NSISPAPER SECTION O QEH.REf JND DOCUKSJtTS DXV. cuaatx.oasa. COUP. o 3 0 0 0 Price Ten Cents 26 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1961 Telephone TV 4-811 No. 90 Unth?r Ml. Shasta-Siskiyou Fair today: cloudy and cooler toniflit and 0 Thursday with chance of rain Thursday. Q Northern California Mostly fair through-! hursd.iy except istal overcast and clouds in extreme north toniJHt and Thursday with 9ht rain Ijkely on roast north of Cape Mendocino; cooler Inland. MLS, flrMts Mraiat Jet Crush Kills 77 In Morocco RABAT. Morocco (AP A French jet airliner crashed into ravine near Rabat Tuesday night and burst into flame, kill ing all 77 persons aboard. Three U.S. citizens, an Arabian prince, the Australian ambassa dor to Cairo, a Moroccan diplo mat and two Soviet citizens were among the victims, said a spokes man for Air France, operator of the plane. The twin-jet Caravclle airliner was coming in from Paris for a landing in a heavy fog and was in radio contact with the Rabat control tower. Suddenly the radio cut out. A few minutes later the plane crashed. Flames towered from the ra vine as firemen raced for the crash scene, about a half mile from the airport. The victims were 71 passengers and 6 crew members. Among the passengers listed by Air France were three Ameri-I cans: Neville Fowler, a Navy of ficer from Pittsburgh; John Brown, a Navy officer from Bay side, Va., and W. Paige.an en gineer w hose home address was unavailable. Other victims were John Quinn, Australia's ambassador to the1 United Arab Republic; Moham med Boufini, a member of Mo rocco's Foreign Ministry; and two Soviet citizens, Nicolai Moskim and Vladimir Skouralove. The Arabian prince was identi fied as Prince Sukhri from the oil rich sheikdom of Kuwait. Most of the-victims were be lieved to be French and Moroc cans. The plane was to have dis charged some of its passengers at Paar Show 'Typical' Rabat and continue on to Casa blanca, the end of its flight. The Caravelle. named "The Beam." was the newest in Air France service. It had begun car rying passengers only May 30. Air France said il was only the second fatal crash for the medi um-range Caravclles. A Scandi navian Airlines Caravelle crashed near Ankara, Turkey Jan. 20 1900 killing all 42 aboard. NEW YORK (API "About all you can say was that it w as typi cally Jack Paar. That was the reaction of Sen Jacob K. JaviU, R-N.Y., to the highly controversial "Jack Paarl in Berlin" film telecast Tuesday! night. Sen. Mike Mansfield, D-Mont had declared alter the film was! made last week on Berlin's tense East-West border that "to say I was disturbed is an understatement." Asked in Washington today whether he had watched the tele cast, the Senate majority leader replied: "No Lord, no! The in cident is closed as far as I am concerned!" The furor stirred by the film ing had caused concern even in the White House, which approved a Defense Department investiga tion of the use of U.S. Army troopsi bv Paar. The Army removed one officer -Lt. Col. Dallas Hoadley of Bal timore from his post for "im proper performance of duty." It admonished a second Col. J. R. Deane Jr. of San Francisco! for "exercising poor judgment in providing troops filmed by Paar. Hope Fades For Quick GM Peace DETROIT (APi-Hopc vanished today that General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers Un ion could reach agreement bv Thursday on a new contract and end crippling local-level strikes that have closed more than 90 GM plants. The UAW, however, ordered all local unions which already have reached at-the-plant agreements to go back to work, and it told others to end strikes as quickly as they reach settlements. Hope of settlement was dashed when the UAW called off a sched uled 2 p.m. Thursday meeting of its General Motors Conference, which had been called to wrap up a new three-year contract with the world's largest automaker. The UAW said, in effect, there was no possibility of getting a suf ficient number of at-the-plant! agreements by Thursday where strikes are in progress. The union urged intensification of local-level bargaining "to reach sensible and satisfactory solutions to local problems at the earliest possible date." lt said the GM conference meeting was being de layed to permit local union offi cers to remain at their plant bar gaining tables. More than 90 plants out of GM's 129 were idled by strikes in sup port of local-level working agree ment demands. Some sources expressed the opinion the conference meeting was delayed because locals of pos sibly a majority of the 280 mem bers had not yet settled. Majority vote rules in the conference. Spokesmen for GM declined any immediate comment on the delay or its possible effects upon nation al negotiations. M . , Vtl p: 'fOSl'- fet . . fay? tr )kp v.. . 'Chutes I Ship In A tlantic y HOWARD tfiNEDICT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The United States sent an "artificial astronaut" on a one-turn orbital ride around the eartli today and brought the space vehicle back to a landing in the Atlantic. The Project Mercury space capsule went up at 9:40 a.m. from this missile test center on the nose of a mighty Atlas rocket. An hour and 46 minutes later, the National Aero nautics and Space' Administration reported the space traveler had been lowered on its parachutes. The intended impact area was 230 miles east -of. Bermuda. ' 1 Recovery ships and planes hastened to the area to attempt recovery. . An airplane spotted the floating capsule minutes after it landed. Reverse rockets wcro set off asi WATERY WRECKAGE Storm driven waters of hurri cane Carla inundated Texas City, Tex., as shown in thn picture above. The death toll today reached 15 with a possibility that more bodies would be found when tha waters receded. The recovery chora was complicated by the pollution of water supplies. Carlo's Ruin Faces ftebuilders GALVESTON, Tex. (API-Tex as and western Louisiana areas' iri watery ruin turned today to a staggering task of rebuilding left1 by Hurricane Carla, one of the mightiest ever to roar out of the Gulf of Mexico. - - With a possibility more bodies yet may be found, the death toll stood at 15 along 250 miles of coastline laid waste by hurricane gales up to 175 miles per hour, raging seas and a rash of torna does. Damage which may take; months to compute ran into, hun dreds of millions. Added to the mammoth recov ery chore were problems of pollut ed water supplies and companion health threats in scores of towns and cities, a few still under as much as eight feet of water. Flood threats posed by heavy rains in Carta's wake were anoth er factor. Also ahead was the return home for most of an estimated half mil lion people who moved inland as Carla approached, a mass migra-i land. Finally shorn of its vicious gales, remnants or -the giant trop ical storm moved northeastward out of Texas toward Missouri. In a telephone conference Tues day night. President Kennedy told Texas Gov. Prince Daniel that the director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Frank B Ellis, would arrive in Houston Thursday to inspect storm-rav. aged areas. Reds Shoot 7th Blast School Aid Plan Licked Cliir Aid BERLIN' (AP West Bcruners wet called on today to sho gratitude to the United States by raising money to help victims of Hurricane Carl.O The newsaO" Morgenpost be ;an the drive with an appeal un der a banner headline rei.ng: "Berliners at this hour we want tAnow our thanks to Arrgica." In large-lettered text beneath, the newspaper said: "American soldiers are ready to give their lives (or the freedom 1 of Berlin. Let us help those who have helped us. Ccl top VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE. Calif. (AP'-The Air Force hopes to recover the orbiting cap sule of Discoverer XXX by Satur day, o The 300-pound, gold-plated cap sule was blasted into orbit here Tuesday al 12 28 p m. lt O orbit ing every 92 4 minutes in a path from 154 to 345 statute miles away from the earth. It uas the 20th Discoverer to orbit. The Air Force said 11 would attempt the recovery from one to four davs after launch. Four Discoverer capsules were caught in the air. Throa, were pulled from the Pacific Ocean in the Hawaiijn recovery area. The orfrnutg capsule payload is secret. Recent discoverers have tested equipment for Samos and Midas sky spy satellites. WASHINGTON (AP '-President Kennedy took a prestige-denting political licking when the Senate sided with the House in voting to continue two school aid programs until 19G3. For all practical purposes this action, accomplished Tuesday on 45-40 Senate vote, probably means that Kennedy will not get the full-fledged aid to education program he is certain to propose again next year. Congress may enact some fringe benefits for colleges i 12. but the classroom construction and teacher salary assistance he has plugged for seems 40 have little chance (or enactment. The House pigepgholed a measure of this nature after it had been passed by the Senate. The theory is that these con troversial proposals need to be sugar coated w ith extension of the popular impacted areas and Na tional Defense Education Act pro grams. The first of these Olives federal aid to school district crowded with children of fcdei. workers. The second provides scholarship grants as well as loans for scientific equipment. Kennedy showed if was we I aware that the exteiSion of these Extension Gets Okay WASHINGTON (API - A two- year extension of the controvcr sial Civil Rights Commission was approved by the House today by 5KW-I06 roll-call vole which added it to an appropriation bill The commission, created four years ago, technically went out of business last wec The extension originally was added by the Senate to a money bill passed earlier by the House It would keep the commission in business until Sept. 30, 13, and give it Mne.OM to finance its work during the present fiscal year. lion everting much heavier loss oil Vice President Lyndon B. John-icity cut off from the mainland life. son prepared to fly back to his since Saturday and target for a dered aloft at 9:04 Ten of the deaths occurred as home state with other federal of- the dying winds of Carla hurledlficials. Daniel said the President back tornadoes after the hurri-may come to Texas later. cane s center was many miles in- The governor said Galveston and inundated Texas City, on the mainland nearby, "right now ap pear to have the greatest need for additional state help from (he standpoint of food, health and the protection of property." Rolling toward the coast was a 38-car special train Ming 122 men and 80 vehicles to restore 100,000 telephones knocked out by the hurricane. National Guardsmen, civil de fense and local officials sloshed back into devastated industrial centers and small places as huge tides, winds and rams diminished. Many residents who fled north ward will not be permitted to re turn, however, until water, sewer WASHINGTON (AP)-The So- anH noWcr scrvice are restored. viet Union has touched off another one of the more dramatic nuclear blast in the atmosphere sccnes was in Galveston, an island the seventh since it resumed testing 13 days ago. The Atomic Energy Commission said the blast had the force of several million tons of TNT. The test early Tuesday was in the air above the arctic island of Novaya Zemlya the third test in that area since Sunday. The ex plosion matched the largest in the current series. tornado before dawn Tuesday, two-ton capsule perched on its Girls waved and blew kisses aslnose. Bolted inside the spacecraft a convoy of 78 National Guardlwas a gray box called a crewman1 the space traveler sped over the Mexican west coast, to slow it fori a descent into the Atlantic east of Bermuda. There an attempt was to be made to recover the project Mer cury capsule, just as would be done if a spaceman were aboard. If the space craft parachutes safely into the Atlantic Ocean aft er one circuit of the world, plans call for a chimpanzee and then a man to be sent into triple orbits about the earth, hopefully but not optimistically by the end of the! year A powerful Atlas missile thun- .m. with the from the space craft as the At las rose into the sky. After one 110-minute circuit, re verse rockets were to fire to slow the vehicle so it would be drawn into the earth's atmosphere for a landing 230 miles east of Bermu da. A large recovery, fleet stood by in the impact area. Tanks Stop OAS Riots troops rolled Into battered Galves ton. It took them throe hours (0 make the 50-mile trip from Houa ton, at tunes creeping through three feet of water covering thel causeway. Guardsmen patrolled in Galves ton and other places to prevent looting. City Manager Robert E Laylon ordered an 8 p.m. curfew, Hospital attendants listed among Galveston's six tornado dead Mrs. J. N. Olson, 62, a city. school board member; Marie Har ris, 57, and Ennic Miles, about 50. Another tornado wrecked the vil lage of Fullbrlght in north Texas but caused no deaths or injuries. Four persons died in a tornado striking at Joncsboro, a. II lev eled al least two dozen houses and several persons were listed as missing. simulator which waa to "breathe, sweat and talk" tafjeallstic fash ion. . ' ; The blastoff looked perfect to bystanders. The Atlas mission was to hurl the 9-foot-talI bell-shaped capsule into orbit at a speed of 17,400 miles an hour. The orbit was to range from a low altitude of 100 miles to a high point of about 150 miles. Tho -A3 foot rocket assembly sped into a partly cloudy sky spewing a triple tail of fire from its three big engines. About 30 seconds after liftoff it arched over on its intended tra jectory toward the northeast, .van ishing from sight about three min utes after launch. The tracking station at Bermu da reported about a minute after llaunch that it had acquired signalsdi CfUDAD TRUJILLO, Domini can Republic (AP) Tanks and- troopa restored order today alter noting by : opposition . political groups left four dead and more than a score injured. Tha violence was sparked by the arrival of a four-man team from the Organization of Ameri can States Tuesday. They are in vestigating the possibility of lift ing some of the diplomatic and economic sanctions on the Domin ican regime that took over after the assassination of Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo last May. The opposition fears this would en trench Trujillo's heirg In power. : There were conflicting versions of what happened near Duarte' Bridge over 'he Ozama River around noon Tuesday, when a crowd of about 5,000, mostly from ' nearby working class neighbor hood, gathered to greet the OAS lelegates. LrOtMls Safety SEATTLE (AP) - A Western Airlines 720 jet landed safely Tuesday night after trouble de veloped in the hydraulic system cutting braking power. Turbo-fans on the plane were reversed and it landed without in rident. Power Officers Inspect Iron Gate Dam Officers and directors of Pacific Power and Light Company in spected the progress in the con struction of Iron Gate Dam on the Klamath River east of Horn brook. Calif., Wednesday morn ing, prior to a quarterly meeting of board members in Mcdford. While dodging the fleet of dicscl- powercd haulers maneuvering onto the top of the mass of earth and clay, the Northwest business men watched ton upon ton of ma terial pile higher by the minute as crews pushed the work close to the full height. John Boyle, vice president of Pacific Power tni the chief super vising engineer on th t7.3m.m UtS dovms Katanga Succession LEOPOLDVtLLE, the Congo 'API The Unill Nations an nounced today a forceful end to Katanga's secession from tha Con go. U.N. troops downed military resistance in a blood-spilling fight of sever' hours at Elisabcthville. the provincial capital deficit-run central government. Casualties among Elisahf thvillc defenders were undetermined. Swedish sources said one U. N. soldier, a Gurka in Indian ranks, was. killed. They reported five1 Swedes and seven Italians wound- Jed. U. N. headquarters here said denouncing the attack, and the Lcopoldvillf central government appointed an administrator to take over the mi al-rich prov ince. "The Katanga secession is over. " U '. headquarters here . . v was told Wits Elisabcthville rep rescnativc. Conor Cruise O'Brien "hjtanga is now a Congolese pi, ince." This wouldjjpcan an end to the inoepenucnce 01 ine iun, copper- two programs for two years. ss'Tshombe 14 months ayo. laden plateau I. proclaimed IQ'clared a state of emergency in the House and Senate now have voted, would make it difficult 10 get anv education legislation I through next year. It also would mean diversion of millions in tax revenues frpml Katanga's $080-million annual "10 duction to the treasury of the (Si I The United Nations tricked mc right to the end. Only last night they gave mc a lemn premise that they would not go against the aKatanga government. Nor would they disarm Katanga's troops, "ey said," the statement said. "Early today they told me they1 were arresting three of 1 min isters and wanted to take me to LeopoldvUle." Adoula said three of Tshombe's ministers, including Interior Min istcr Godcfroid Munongo, have lied. Munoi1 is considered the strong man of the province. . About 150 U.N. Irish soldiers were reported surrounded by 500 Katanga soldiers in the mining town of J-Mville about 00 miles from ElisabctQllc. Adoula said that Tuesday night the province. n Katanga forces set fire to a U.N, A radio repolf picked up roln garage and when U. N. troops Elisabcthville said Tshombe. altiient to put out the blaze they er reaching a safe hideout, iOVore fired on by mercenaries a statement. I from the Belgian consulate. President Moisec Tshombe fled.wo U. N. soldiers were killed and live or six wounaea. Premier Cyrillc Adoula nounced the Katanga arm stpcd of its 500 or so white mercenaries by another show o( U. N. force l(g. 28 will be inte grated with '0' of 0 central government's commander in ayief, Gen. Joseph Mobutu, a I- t-IJ U. luuuia iuiu iH.-wsnit;ii 11c udu asked the United Nations to take over all essential services in Ka tanga and his government 0ias development, told the directors the dam was approaching the ' top ping out stage. Being built to regulate the flows of the Klamath downstream from the company's six Klamath hy droelectric plants. Iron Gate is al ready more than 150 feel high. It nearly reaches Its planned width of 005 feet across its crest. The mass contains more, than one million cubic yards of materi al, Boyle said. It will be 173 feet high whm fmishsd. The PPkL igiier explained to tlx grmip f 24 directors and officers, huM by board chair- mn Paul R. NeKie. Portland, that thr rcquirnnents of Califor nia tnri U.S. fisheries authorities fw a minimum of 710 cubic frt aw hcw to be released (ram Inm Uatt at all times. Riv er fluctuatiawi will H aJmost un noticeable. He said seasonal changes in river levels will be restricted to three inches in any hour except for natural-caused emergencies. Control of the river level for the benefit of fish life below Iron Gate will be made possible by iuge valve' inside a 12-foot diameter steel tip through which the wa ter will flow from the reservoir to the small powerhouse. The 700-foot-long penstock tube is al most complete, Boyle reported. The directors also viewed the deep cut made in the solid rock of the west wall of the site which will be the overflow spillway. They also watched Westinghousc Eiectric crews who are busy as sembling an 18.000 k'watt gen erator at the site. Po" r from the turbine-genera tor will go into the system at fry I M 32 rV - controlled water flows through the equipment. Completion dale for the new fa cility is scheduled for December i STEEL CHANNEL Iron Gat on tha Klamath River will flow through this 12-foot diamattr pomtock whara ita' Haw will k -rfiMu lawlt AUt hu hllfla ttl Cflll- Copco No. 1 substation while thitrol vtlva at powarhousa. Maantima, tha raiarvoir area - will ba absorbing upstraam target in rivar laval. I ha $7,500,000 dam for regulating downttraam rivar " flows, conttructad by Pacific Powar and Light, il tchad uled for completion in Dacambar,
