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By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
President Kennedy is reported
"far from convinced" today that
U.S. troops should be sent now
into South Viet Nam's war
against communist guerrilas. The
President is expected to discuss
the question this afternoon at a
meeting of the National Security
Council, his top policy advisory
group.
One ol the President's closest
advisers, Special Assistant Walt
W. Rostow, is reported to have
urged consideration of stranger
measures, including the dispatch
of U.S. combat' troops to South
Vict Nam as a reserve force.
A reliable source says that
neither Secretary of Slate Dean
Rusk nor Defense Secretary Rob
ert S. McNamara has joined Ros
low's side of the still informal
debate.
t t t t
Well, as one American, 1 can't
help hoping that Special Assistant
Rostow loses out in the argu
ment. One of the first laws of
war is to choose your battle
ground with great care. When
that fundamental law Is disregard
ed the consequences can be ter
rible. Example:
Some 2,000 years ago, Rome
and Carthage were lined up
against each other for the mas
tery of the world. Carthage's
great military leader, Hannibal,
invaded Italy. With a relatively
small force, that had to live off
the country, since there were no
lines of supply back to Carthage,
he raided Italy for years.
But. eventually, it came to a
showdown. Hannibal's brother-in-law
Hasdrubal chose the Metaur-
us river as the spot for a de
cisive battle with the Romans. He
fought with the river AT HIS
BACK. It was a bad choice. The
Romans attacked before Hanni
bal could effect a junction with
his brother-in-law's forces, and
defeated Hasdrubal. The river IN
HIS REAR prevented an orderly
retreat, and Hasdrubal's army
was destroyed.
The end result of his defeat at
the Metaurus was that ROME
WON THE WAR and Carthage
was destroyed.
That's what can happen when
the WRONG PLACE TO FIGHT
is chosen.
It's hard to escape the conclu
sion that South Viet Nam, in the
jungles of Southeast Asia, would
be a bad choice of a place for
US to fight. It's a long way from
home. Our lines of communication
could easily be destroyed. It
might be as disastrous to us as
the Metaurus river was to Car
thage. If we have to fight, let's pick
a better place than South Viet
Nam.
Planes Hit;
Six Killed
SANFORD. Fla. (API Two Na
vy twin-engine attack bombers
collided Thursday over Sanford
Naval Air Station. All six men
aboard were killed.
Flaming wreckage of the jets
fell within 200 feet of Seminole
High School but no one on the
ground was injured. Pupils had
been dismissed for the day but 20
teachers were attending a meet
ing in the school's administration
building when the accident oc
riirrpd. One of the planes was on ground
control approach for a landing and
the other was practicing field mir
ror landings, a Navy spokesman
said.
Eisenhower Frowns On TV Debates, Lack Of Progress
NEW YORK (AP) Former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
says that, if he were in office,
he would not debate a political
rival on television.
The former president was seen
Thursday night over the CBS tele
vision network in an hour-long
interview w ith Walter Cronkite. It
was taped at Gettysburg. Pa.,
Eisenhower's home, last spring.
Among his major disappoint
ments. Eisenhower said, was the
failure of Vice President Richard
M. Nixon to win election as his
successor and "a lack of definite
proof we had made real progress
toward achieving peace with jus
tice." As his most important accom
plishment in office, he listed
"creating an atmosphere of se
renity and mutual confidence."
As for his feelings about the
late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy.
Eisenhower felt the way to de
feat the Wisconsin Republican
was to Ignore him.
His 1955 heart attack. Eisen
hower saidjj might have been
Weather
Klamath Falls and vicinity
Fair through Saturday wilh
patchy morning fog. Lows 33
48. Highs 70-75.
High yesterday 62
Low last night 42
Precip. last 24 hours .05
Since Oct. 1 .21
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Africa
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (API
Ghana sought support today for
a resolution calling on the Securi
ty Council to expel South Africa
from the United Nations.
Ghana Ambassador Alex Quai-
son-Sackey said his delegation had
drawn up a draft demanding the
ouster of the white supremacist
nation and would put it before the
26-nation African group today.
yuaison-backey declined to say
on what grounds the demand was
based until he had consulted the
rest of the group. Presumably it
says South Africa is unworthy of
U.N. membership because it is
continuing its apartheid race
segregation policies in defiance
of repeated U.N. appeals.
Some Africans doubted Ghana
would get strong support from
their group for such a drastic de
mand. A number of African dele
gates, although bitterly opposed to
South Africa's racial policies,
have said privately they feel it is
wiser to keep the republic in the
U.N. where other members can
bring pressure to bear and per
haps eventually get some results.
At least seven affirmative votes
would be required in the 11-nation
Mode Space War
Rages Saturday
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mock
aerospace war on a vast scale
will rage Saturday through North
lAmerican skies.
Unprecedented in the variety
and volume of modern weapons
involved, the make-believe con
flict will ground non-military air
craft for 12 hours.
From noon to midnight Eastern
Standard Time, no airliner or pri
vate plane may operate above the
U.S. or Canadian mainland or
over Alaska.
Streams of B52 and B47 jet
bombers will hurl themselves at
prime U.S. and Canadian targets.
They wul fire no weapons, drop
no bombs. But they'll test to the
limit the resources of NORAD,
the North American Air Defense
Command.
From headquarters at Colorado
Springs, the NORAD commander,
Gen. Laurence S. huter, will di
rect the interceptor aircraft, the
antiaircraft missile stations and
the supporting installations that
have been woven into the conti
nental defensive network.
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay. Air
Force chief of staff, planned to
keep a critical eye on activities
from his command post in the
Pentagon.
Air Force Secretary Eugene
Zuckert and N. E. Halaby, admin
istrator of the Federal Aviation
Agency, arranged to observe the
operation from the northeastern
regional headquarters ol tne Air
Defense Command at Hancock
Field, Syracuse, N.Y.
Halaby has put out an order
banning flying by non-partici-
brought on by his temper, and
since then "I've never gotten
angry again."
Eisenhower's views of TV de
bates were given while discussing
Nixon's defeat by John F. Ken
nedy. Said Eisenhower: "I can't think
of anything that's worse. Any man
that is an incumbent has to stick
to the facts. He is a responsible
man debating with someone who,
if he chooses, can be irresponsi-
ible
No. if I were giving a political
piece of advice to my associates
in government. 1 would say
'When you re in.
never debate
w ith an outer.' "
At several points in the inter
view. Eisenhower referred to his
temper.
"Like most people," he said. "I
am a man of considerable
temper. . . . One thing that s
damaging to anybocP that aspires
to a position of leadership of any
kind . . . must learn to control
his temper. And this sometimes
. . . gets to be quite a tough job
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Ouster
Security Council to expel South
Africa. Observers doubted that
many could be mustered.
Ghana's resolution reportedly
was drawn up before South Afri-
can Foreign Minister Eric Louw
made his policy speech in the
General Assembly that brought
down the wrath of the African
group and resulted in a 67-1 vote
of censure against Louw.
Louw has claimed the concert
ed black African move against his
government was decided long be-
lore he spoke and that his ad
dress served only to trigger the
censure vote and move for expul
sion.
"We knew this was coming be
fore I came here for this assem
bly," he told reporters. "It's all
part of a prearranged campaign."
Louw said the unprecedented
censure of his speech was sure
to loose a tide of resentment
among South Africans who have
long smarted under U.N. attacks.
He said it might provoke demands
that South Africa pull out of the;
world body.
Louw declined to speculate if
his government would agree to
such demands.
pating civil aircraft during , the
12-hour exercise period.
This was necessary for safety
reasons, he said. Enemy iam-
ming tactics may put out of com
mission many of the radio navi
gation aids upon which civil
aviation depends.
Shooting At Power Line
Dangers Life, Property
Thoughtless and careless hunt
ers taking pot shots at electric
power lines and insulators are en
dangering their own lives and
others, greatly inconveniencing
electric consumers in their homes
and at work and increasing for
est fire hazards In the region, it
was reported today.
In a warning to adults that
their irresponsible acts will bring
arrest and an appeal to parents
to inform their sons w ith .22 rifles
of the hazards they create. Sam
Ritchey, manager for Pacific
Power and Light Company, de
scribed the damage to PP&L's
lines this fall hunting season as
the worst in recent years.
One of the most critical areas
is along the 66,000-volt power line
running east of Madison Avenue
and through the Hot Springs resi
dential neighborhood north of
Klamath Falls.
Ritchey reported Friday the
lives of two infants being kept
As for a possible cause of his
heart attack, Eisenhower said:
"On Sept. 23, 1955, I was play
ing golf and I was playing well'
and I started off about the fourth
hole, and I had a message to
come into the clubhouse, and I
had a cart.
"So I dashed up. and there was
a call from the State Department.
I And it turned out that while, al
though I'd answered in a mutter
of a couple of minutes, some lit
tle emergency had happened, and
, they'd like to talk to me in about
Ian hnnr ihov'A lot m Irrnw Kn'ranHnm I wrnfp tn mvsplf ahAut
I went on my golf date.
Eisenhower then told of being
called back to the clubhouse again
for another call on the lame sub -
ject, which he said "was impor
tant but I mean it wasn't of
too immediate a character."
'And finally, we s.arted back
on another nine and I got anoth- damaged me, upset me, or any
er one." he continued. "This one! thing else. n
was by someone wto didn't real-
ize that I'd had tie thing. Andlthal I will never support any ac
by this time I aQ ays had an uq tion or any individual 1Q is
certain temper il had gotten, guilty of unAmcrican methods in
HIGH HOPES Not witches nor goblins but students from Klamath Union High School
firing up their hopes for a victory over the Black Tornado of Medford High School
in their homecoming clash on Modoc Field tonight. The bonfira was a roaring suc
cess and touched off homecoming plans which include a parade, queen crowning at
the game and dance following the gridiron clash.
Reds Charge UN
UNITED NATIONS.' N.Y. (AP
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Valerian A. Zorin charged today
that one man apparently mean
ing American Andrew W. Cordier
had seized power over the U.N
alive in an electric-operated incu
bator at the Cedarville Medical
Center were placed in peril in the
past week when a hunter's shot
snapped a PP&L line in Modoc
County, disrupting service to Ce
darville for more than two hours.
The line break also set off a
grass fire that required forest
fighters to control.
The TP&L manager said the
outbreak of shooting of insulators
is general through Southern and
Eastern Oregon, particularly in
rural areas where deer hunting
is now in full swing. He reported
PP&L is informing the sheriffs
in each county and asking for
investigations where possible.
Ritchey reported a recent patrol
of the company's line east and
north of. the city disclosed 38
insulators each worth $7 dam
aged by shots. He said these prob-
lably were shot at by young boys
I who are not aware of the serious-
Iness of their choice of targets.
completely out of control.
"And this one doctor says that
he'd never seen me in such a
state and that's the reason I had
a heart attack. ... So I've never
gotten angry again."
The former president was asked
what he now thought, in looking
back, would have been the best
possible way to handle McCarthy
and his congressional probes into
alleged Communist infiltration
into government.
"The other day. "Walter." said
Eisenhower. "I ran into a memo-
April. 1953
"And in this memoranda. I said
I have looked over this matter
1 ever since it's come to my atten-
tion, and I am convinced that the
way for me to defeat Sen. Mc
Carthy is to ignore it.
"Never to admit that he has
"I will take the positive basis
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secretariat and was running it in
a one-sided way.
At a news conference, he de
clared this lent urgency to the
need for big-power agreement on
an acting secretary-general to re
place the late Dag Hammarskjold.
He said if Hammarskjold's suc
cessor were named without such
agreement, "this will cause the
organization to collapse."
Zorin called the news confer
ence to deny what he called pub
lished distortions of the Soviet po
sition. He was asked whether the So
viet Union was satisfied with the
situation in the secretarial since
Hammarskjold was killed in a
plane crash in Africa Sept. 18. He
replied that the situation was 'ab
normal. 'No one appointed an acting
secretary-general, whereas in re
ality one is extant and is acting,
and leading the secretariat," he
said.
"1 submit that tills is an illegal
procedure. One man is acting by
right of seizure of power without
asking anybody.".
This man, Zorin continued, is
performing "not in the interest of
the organization as a whole and
by no means as a neutral per
son." "If you want to know who it is,"
said Zorin, "read the New York
Times."
This seemed to refer to a Times
story that said the undersecretar
ies 'at U.N. headquarters were de
whatever official acts he may find
it necessary to carry out.
"A far i T ran rora I npVt'V
mentioned his (McCarthy's) name
land I haniien to know that this
had a very great effect."
Discussing wnat ne consiocren
his greatest achievement of his
I eight years in office, Eisenhower
said in part:
"When I came to the presiden
cy, the cnunlrv ttni rathpr in an
unhappy state. There was bitter
ness and there was quarrelling,
and so on. ... I tried to create
an atmosphere of greater serenity
and mutual confidence, and I
think that it , . . was noticeable
ot those eight years that that
was brought about. . . ."
Concerning Nixon, Eisenhower
commented:
"I say that one of my greatest
disappointments was the dcteat oi
Mr. Nixon. As vou know. 1
thnuoht that he was hi"hlv fluali-
lied to take over the office of the
presidency, and I was certain he
wnnlH he leaHinff thp country in
what I thought the path of re-
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1961
Seized'
ciding
desk."
things "around Cordier's
Cordier, a U.S. citizen, long was
Hammarskjold's executive assist
ant, but on Aug. 1 became under
secretary for Assembly, affairs.
Boy Gunman Surrenders
To Police After Fight
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP)
Surrounded and with his hysteri
cal mother appealing to him, a
15-year-old gun-happy boy surren
dered to a posse Thursday night
after shooting one officer in the
wrist.
Stocky young John D. Russell
emerged from beside a farmhouse!
into the glare of spotlights and
dropped two guns he carried.
The scene in rural eastern
Arapahoe County, southeast of
Denver, climaxed an afternoon of
violence which began when the
high school freshman abducted
two neighbor women, one of them
an expectant mother. Both later
were freed unharmed.
Sheriffs Sgt. Chester Halligan,
44, was shot in the' left wrist by a
bullet from young Russell's .38-
caliber pistol.
Russell, a 5-8, 170-pounder, is a
gun enthusiast and worked last
summer as a fast-draw eunsling-
er at an amusement center! He is
For Peace
sponsible progress.
He said eliminating atomic test
ing, and disarmament, are "the
purpose of America to preserve
freedom and seek a peace with
justice.
The former president said he
thought the danger of a nuclear
war being touched off by accident
was less than it was sometimes
represented, but he added:
"We've got to be determined
that we have the courage to live,
possibly for decades, with the
threat of aggression against us
possibly a nuclear aggression. . . ,
"The price of safety today is
probably not only vigilance but
alertness and strength.
In another observation, Eisen
hower said he still considers Sher
man Adams, the assistant who re
signed as the result of criticism
lover .iis acceptance of favors
from industrialist Bernard Gold-
fine, to be "one of the most hon
est. hard working, dedicated men
(I've ever known." But he added
that Adams probably was "naivfj
and unwary."
Telephone
CiMDO .Police
BERLIN 'API - East German
police fired repeatedly today on
U.S. military police and Weil
Berlin police after nine refugees
broke through the barbed
wire
ringing off West Berlin.
No one was hit in the shooting
and the Western police did not re
turn the fire.
The nine refugees dashed into
the American sector of West Ber
lin after their truck got stuck in
the Communists' barbed wire en
tanglement.
West Berlin police called the
shooting the most serious incident
since the Communists barricaded
the border Aug. 13.
A U.S. Army spokesman con
firmed there had been shooting.
He said a U.S. military police
patrol was at the scone hut mere
ly observed it.
East German police shouted
warnings to the Americans and
West Berlin police to stay away
from the fence where the refu
gees' truck was stuck in the wire
mesh and then opened fire with
rifles and submachine guns, eye
witnesses said.
The East Germans kept shoot
ing sporadically for an hour. They1
rushed an armored car to the
border wilh a heavy machine gun
mounted on it but did not fire
The East Berlin guards have
been shooting almost daily along
the tense Berlin border, bringing1
warnings from both West and
East officials of the danger of set
ting off the powderkeg.
The shooting stopped shortly
after the East German police had
dragged the truck free from the
wire fence. , .
West Berlin police said their
forces and military police were
never closer than 50 to 60 yards
to the East Berlin police.
Including the nine refugees, a
total of 20 East Germans escaped
to West Berlin in the 24 hours
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton
W. Russell.
Sheriff's investigator Bill Ma-
raggos gave this account of the
incident:
Young Russell entered the home
of Mrs. Sarchct, who is pregnant,
pointed a .38 revolver at her and
ordered her to give him her hus
band's .22 pistol and 16-gauge
shotgun. Then he forced her to
call another neighbor, Violet Mc-
Fay.
When Mrs. McFay arrived, the
youth told her to drive to a Den
ver shopping center and buy am
munition for the weapons.
She returned from her mission.
and the two women and the boy
drove off in Mrs. McFay s car.
Russell halted the car in a rural
area, allowed the women to drive
away.
GET PROOF TONIGHT a Tonight, Friday the 1 3h, on Modoc Field the Klamath Un
ion Pelicans will find out whether "Fly Through the Tornado" week has produced th
desired effect. They tangle with the Medford Black Tornado at 8 o'clock. Here,
Klamath Falls Mayor Bob Veetch approves the Pelicen proelemation of the week.
Pictured with him, from left in back, ere Sherm Allen and Ricky Currin, Pel gridiron
cn.cantxint. and athletic director Jim Johnson. Mavar Veatch it flanked by Keren
Learning, at left, and Claudia Lane. The pretty Misses
rally squad.
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ending at 7 a.m. Among them was
one East German policeman.
On the border between West
and East Germany, a West Gcr-
man newspaperman trying to in-l
terview East German farmers
near Gifhorn was shot and
dragged off into the Communist
zone, witnesses reported Thurs-!
day. The newsman apparently
stepped over the frontier line dur
ing his interviews.
in Bonn, West German Foreign
Fund Campaign
Near 70
Klamath County United Fundsaid that although nearly 40 per
reached 69.8 per cent of its 1062
goal at Friday morning's report
session, Ralph Hunter, campaign
chairman, reported.
Total on the drive to date is
$93,257, Hunter said, with Friday's1
collection amounting to $8,843.
Monday marks the scheduled
end of the 1962 drive, United Fund
announced, but an extension will
be necessary because of short
crews in some divisions. Hunterl
Trust Laws
Said Broken
LOS ANGELES (AP)-A federal
grand jury has returned antitrust
indictments against General Mo
tors Corp., four Chevrolet sales
executives and three Southern
California dcaTer associations.
The jury charged the defen
dants with conspiring to stop in
dividual dealers in Southern Cali
fornia from selling through dis
count houses.
GM Board Chairman Frederick
Donner denied the accusation. He
said GM frowned on the discount
dealers' lack of service facilities
and other customer conveniences
but did nothing to discourage
the discounters.
The indictment, prepared by the
Justice Department s antitrust di
vision, said "shoppers" were hired
by the defendants to determine
which dealers were selling cars
through discount houses. The
shoppers would buy cars and the
defendants would "induce or per
suade" dealers to buy the cars
back.
Retail sales of Chcvrolets,
through all sources, totaled $250
million last year in Southern Cali
fornia, the jury said. It said dis
count hoase car sales In this area
have grown from a trickle in 1953
to a retail total of about $5 mil
lion.
We-afhor
Ml, Shasta-Siskiyou Fair and
Manner through Saturday; lower
humidity; local strong east winds.
Northern California Fair and
warmer through Sunday except
morning fog ol northern coast.
IP's
Minister Heinrich von Brentano
said new instructions are being
sent Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe
in Washington on the Berlin crisis
but made clear his government
is holding fast to the policy it has
pursued toward East Germany
for years.
He said West Germany is
counting on the Western allies to
stand by their 1954 pledge to rec
ognize it as the only spokesman
for the whole German people.
Mark
cent of the $135,309 goal had been
collected, only about 60 per cent
of the firms had been contacted.
United Fund will be accepting
walk-in donations for the next
week at the office, 1401 Esplanade
Avenue. Mailed contributions
should be sent to P.O. box 8.19.
Contributions in these two man
ners will be credited to the ap
propriate division as well as the
individual contributor.
Division chairmen and their per
centage standings: Paul Meier, 102
per cent; Charles Howard, 82 per
cent; Chuck Burman, 78.6 per
cent; Al Nyback, 73.1 per cent;.
George Futcraft, 53.3 per cent;
Barney Cavanauch, eg per cent:
Mike Balslger. 67.7 per cent; Nel
son Heed, 66.6 per cent: Jack
Kalinoskl, 52.1 per cent; Al Lynch,
47.1 per cent: Norman Duffy, 41.4
per cent; Cliff McGinty, 25.1 per
cent; Bob Rutter, 23 per cent;
George Price, 22 per cent.
Nyback's division had the larg
est percentage Increase with 30
per cent gain at Friday's session.
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