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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1961)
COj'P. M2JSPAP2. SSOTIOH GEN. Hit. AND co:a2s:;rs CIV. EUj2j'ii,0au6 - e In The- Day's cvvs By FRANK JENKINS In his 6'i hour talk in Moscow yesterday, Mr. Kroosh hinted rath er broadly that if the West "shows a willingness" to settle the German problem on a basis that will be "satisfactory to the Soviet Union'1 he will be willing to POSTPONE the deadline on a West Berlin settlement, PROVID ING West Berlin is set up as a "free demilitarized city" by which he means that we must get our military forces out of Berlin. He intimated quite strongly that if we aren't willing to settle on that basis the Soviet Union will start testing whopper nuclear bombs, starting with, a 50-mega-tonner which would be powerful enough to leave only a big hole in the ground where formerly stood great cities such as New York or Washington. What is our reaction to this mailed fist in the velvet glove proposal? ' This morning's dispatches in form us that the White House has ASKED Russia to call off its planned test of a 50-megaton nu clear bomb late this month, be cause of the "mass" of nuclear fallout it would unleash. The White House statement, which was issued last night, says such an explosion could only serve some unconfessed political pur pose, and added: "We believe the peoples through out the world will join us in ask ing the Soviet Union not to pro ceed with a test which can serve no legitimate purpose and which adds a mass of additional radio active fallout its that which has been unleashed in recent weeks." Well, presumably, we feel that in that way we can dramatize to the neutrals the GRIM AWFUL- NESS of communism, which doesn't hesitate to threaten that if it doesn't get what it wants it stands ready to destroy t b e world. By dramatizing to the neu trals the utter heartlessness of communism, we hope to bring them over to our side. I'm afraid we're wrong. Every thing considered, it seems more probable that the Russian threat will cause the neutrals to say to themselves: "WE'D BETTER GET OVER ON THE COMMUNIST SIDE WHILE THERE IS YET TIME TO DO SO. OTHERWISE THEY WELL DESTROY US ALL." It would be wonderful, of '.course, if an appeal to world opin ion could sd impress the Kremlin as to cause its members to call off their plans to conquer the world for communism. But that seems highly unlikely to happen. Communism isn't much impressed by world opinion'. In its attitude toward the neutral countries of the world, it is apt to be influenced only by Stalin's cyni cal question: "HOW . MANY DIVISIONS HAVE THEY GOT?" The truth is that the neutral countries have very little military power, and the Kremlin feels that it can pick them off, one by one, whenever it chooses to do so. It is hard to escape the grim belief that it will be better for us to TELL Russia than to ASK her. Asking Russia to do some thing somehow seems to convey the idea that we are AFRAID of her. If Russia gets the idea we're afraid of her, we're goners. Man Locked In Boxcar WEED A Los Angeles man, Patrick Kelly, 51, survived 10 days locked in a boxcar without food and water. . Workers at the International Pa per Company opened a boxcar in the yards to load materials this morning at 8:05 a.m. and found Kelly inside. He was in weakened condition, but otherwise in good shape, and was given food, and water at the Weed police station, and was later transfered to county hos pital at Yreka. Kelly said he climbed into the boxcar in Los Angeles on Oct. 8 intending to ride to Oakland. He was locked in the car. At stop points he was unable to altract attention to his plight. The car had stood in the company's yards in Weed for the past three nays, and during this time. Kelly said he pounded on the sides of the car, but was unable to at tract anyone's attention. Commies Ust Tear Gas Bomb BERLIN HTD - Communist police today tossed tear gas gre nades over thO border wall at West Berliners. The incident took place while more than 3.000 Amer ican troops participated in one of the biggest war games evet held in this divided city. o Klamath Falls and vicinity Fair through Thursday except lo cal fog. Slightly cooler. High yesterday 65 Low last night 44 Precip. last 24 hours .mi Since Oct. 1 .21 Same period last year .56 Church Okays Mosptol Flan The Presbyterian Hospital Com-, mittee informed the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce at its noon meeting today that tne Presbytery of Southwest Oregon of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. has authorized its hospital committee to form a non profit corporation for the purpose of developing and operating an inter-eommwfity hospital in the Klamath Falls area. The Rev. Robert C. Groves. First Presbyterian Church, is chairman of the committee, and Rev. Laing W. Sibbett, Peace Me morial Presbyterian Church, is secretary. The Presbyterian hospital com mittee in cooperation with the Klamath Chamber of Commerce, committee and members of the medical profession have been working for some months in the gathering of information relative Hal Coe Resigns As District Judge District Judge Hal F. Coe sub mitted his resignation effective Dec. 1, 1961, to the governor's office, he informed the Klamath County Court Wednesday morning. Judge Coe, who was appointed January 9, 1961, said he would en ter private practice in Klamath Falls. He said, "This decision has been reached after considerable thought on my part. It is with considerable regret that I leave the position of district judge, and while I have been on the bench, I have done my utmost to fulfill the position competently and with integrity and fairness to all tne citizens of Klamath County." Judge Coe was appointed in Jan uary to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge D. E. Van Vac- tor who died in December of 1960. He was the youngest district judge in the state at the time of his appointment, being just 29. Appointment of a successor would have to , come from the governor's , office. An official an nouncement on Coe's resignation expected from that source shortly. Coe said he had phoned his res ignation to the governor's office early. Wednesday morning. He em phasized that the only reason for French PARIS (API The French gov-i ernment decided today to expel 1.500 Algerians swept up in Tues-j day night's curfew rioting, and said this is only the start of a giant weeding-out process. Three persons were killed and 77 injured seriously in bloody bat tling between police and the Mos lem North Africans protesting a curfew imposed on them. The dead were two Algerians and an unidentified European. Thirteen policemen were among the in jured. Riot squads arrested 11,538 Al gerians from among about 20,000' who boiled out in the streets. It was announced that 1,500 would be returned to Algeria with Union Shys From Strike Of Chrysler Auto Plant DETROIT, Mich. (AP)-Walterj P. Reuther indicates he is trying to wind up labor contract nego tiations in the auto industry witn out striking the little brother in the Big Three automotive family Chrysler Corp. The United Auto Workers pres ident soft-pedaled strike talk Tuesday when he personally look command of the final round of bargaining w ith Chrysler. Reuther discloscjl a new bar gaining strategy designed to avoid at Chrysler the stres over local issues that shut down Gen eral MotOs Corp. for two weeks and Ford Motor Cg for 13 days. Chrysler and the UAW agreed. Reuther said, to give priority to reaching agreements on working conditions at both and local Avels. 0 o If tt aft mm tU$ Price Ten Cents 24 Pages to such a project. This new action provides that a responsible legal body will now have the authority to finance, negotiate with archi tects and builders, work with the Klamath Medical Association, and do all other necessary things to lead our communities in securing new medical facilities. The Presbyterian hospital com mittee stated that the community should be aware that the commit tee is only interested in the best kind of hospital for the area and that its negotiations will be to this end. The committee also said it intends that the close association with the Chamber of Commerce committee shall be maintained. Further, it is the intention of the Presbyterian committee, the statement said, that the new hos pital corporation include other than Presbyterian personnel in its board of directors. his resignation was a personal de cision to enter private practice, and an offer which he felt he had to accept at this time. Mickey Cohen Free On Bond LOS ANGELES (API-Federal Judge Leon R. Yankwich ap proved- a $100,000 bond; Monday tor. the release of fornjier gam bler Mickey Cohen from Alcatrazl Prison pending an appeal ' Cohen is appealing from a fed eral conviction of income ' tax evasion. An order for his release on bond, was made last Thursday by U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. J)ouglas. Bulletin The County Court Wednesday morning approved the bid of Bros- terhous Construction Co. for con struction of the juvenile heme. Work on the home will begin immediately. Expel Algerians in 48 hours. As identity checks continue, others are to be ex pelled. The curfew, imposed to cut, down on Algerian attacks on po lice and warfare betwen rival Algerian gangs, brought a call for the demonstration from the rebel FLN National Liberation Front. It was heeded in proportions which showed a broad and insist ent support of the rebel govern ment in its seven-year fight to break French rule in Algeria. The curfew calls for Algerians to be off the streets by midnight and for all bars catering to them and for all bars caering to them to close by 7 p.m. The demon strations underlined the massive solidarity of the tens of thousands In negotiations with GM and rord, agreements lirst were made on a national economic con tract covering wages and extra benefits. But local unions insisted on striking to back up their de mands on noneconomic matters. Reuther said wages and bene- fits will be taken up a s t at Chrysler. But he said the L'AW will insist that Chrysler accept the wage and benelit. pattern es tablished in settlements the union now has with GM, Ford and American Motors Corp. This gives UAW members an annual wage increase of 2' per cent or 6 cents an hour, which ever is larger, and a cost-of-living wage increase tied to the the national government's consumer price in Idcx. , .... RETURNING COMMANDERS Col. Rupert C. Welch, left, Kingsley Field bat commander, and Lt. Col. Phillip A. Rand, right, 322nd Fighter-Interceptor command er, got together on the flight lino Monday after their return flight from McChord Air Force Base, Wash. Colonel Welch led 17 returning FI0I-B "Voodoos," which were flown by 322nd air crews. Air and ground crews had been deployed to McChord since May during reconstruction of Kingsley's main runway. New Bureau Head Named Clifford D. Lawrence, a civil engineer with 24 years' experience with the Bureau of Reclamation, was named today as project man ager of the bureau's Klamath Pro. ject by Regional Director H. P. Dugan at Sacramento. He suc ceeds John S. Hamilton, former project manager, who earlier this year accepted a position with the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. The Klamath Project, situated in south central Oregon and north central California, provides irriga tion water to an area in excess of 200,000 acres. The project has had a long and productive history1 beginning in 1906 ;whcn its con struction was first started, lt is one of the oldest reclamation proj ects in the West. '. Lawrence's appointment follows a series ot progressively respon sible positions with the bureau be ginning in 1937 as a field office engineer on the Island Park Dam, Ashton, Idaho. In 1939 he trans-l ferred to the Grand Coulee Dam in the stale of Washington where he worked as an engineer until 1946. Since that time he has been employed on the Klamath Project in various capacities in protect dc velopment engineering. His latest position has been that of chief of the project s Hydrology and Plan ning Division. of Algerians in the Paris region with the rebel government. Algerian men, women and chil dren poured from subway stations buildings and side streets- in va rious quarters of the city. Riot-tested police split them up in club-swinging charges that beat many to the pavements. Police packed big vans and city buses with those arrested. They were taken to substations for a check of identity papers. Those who cannot show valid identification will be sent back to Algeria, a policy police began when fighting between opposing gangs of Algerians and attacks on police increased a few months ago. Khrushchev Predicts MOSCOW (AP) Premier Khrushchev told the 22nd Soviet Communist party congress today that the downfall of imperialism and the triumph of socialism on a world scale are inevitable. The Soviet premier took the rostrum at the second session of the congress to discuss the mas sive new party program its first since 1919 which the Kremlin claims wili make communism su preme and irresistibly attractive to the rest of the world by 1980. Khrushchev told the more than 4.000 delegates in the new Krem lin Palace c4Congrcsscs that the experience of a large group of counties had confirmed that the socialist system inevitably re places the capitalist system. Imperialism the standard Communist term lor Western capitalism has irretrievably lost its hold on the bulk of the world's peoples, he declared, asserting KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, 1 - site, Kingsley Group Awarded Air Force Safefy Honors KINGSLEY FIELD - An out standing record of safe flying was rewarded Wednesday morning as the 408th Fighter Group at King sley Field was presented the Air1 Force flying safety award during a ceremony in the briefing room of t h e 322nd Fighter - Interceptor Squadron. Maj. Gen B. J. Webster, chief of staff of Air Defense Command, presented an inscribed plaque to Col. Rupert C. Welch, Kingsley bas commander. Gen. Robert M. Lee, ADC com mander,- conveyed his personal Telegraphers Ask Hearing SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Offi cials of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers planned to ask Fed eral Judge Albert C. Wollenberg! today to dissolve a restraining or der forbidding a strike against Southern Pacific railroad. Wollenberg issued the restrain-' ing order Tuesday several hours after the union announced it planned to strike the railroad Thursday. The walkout could tie up service by SP in seven west ern states. . . The judge set Oct. 26 for argu ments on the railroad's petition for a preliminary injunction. The union said it would ask that the order be dissolved and the hear ing be held immediately. 'We have complied with all pro visions of the Railroad Labor Act in every respect and a strike would be legal under the act," said G. E. Leighty, head of the union. "We feel we can show con clusively that the restraining or der should be dissolved." Southern Pacific obtained the restraining order on grounds that the main issue in the dispute, the reduction of jobs, was still pend ing before the National Railroad Adjustment Board. SP attorneys argued that a strike cannot be called until "our administrative remedies have been exhausted The railroad said the walkout could halt San Francisco Penin sula commute service and cost SP more than $1 million damages a day. that socialism is the main avenue along which mankind advances. In the Soviet Union, he con tinued, socialism has been trans lated into reality and this 22nd parly congress will go down in history as the congress of the builders of communism. The premier said the Soviet people's living conditions have been radically altered as a result of these "colossal transforma tions'that unemployment had been wiped out long ago, work ers' real wages have risen 480 per cent, and the real incomes of the peasants have risen more than 500 per cent. Khrushchev listed what he called three historical (actors of the 20lh century. "The formation of the world so cialist system is the principal re sult of the progressive develop ment of society in our epoch," he declared- O O O I WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1961 congratulations to all personnel of1 the 408th. "This record is especially sic nificant in view of the fact that part of the 408th Fighter Groupl was deployed to McChord Air Force Base during the period ofl the award, General Lee said. "The split operation of the unit required an outstanding job from supervisors and aircrews to main tain an accident-free record." He added that the unit maintained it self in combat ready status and increased its effectiveness during the period. Kingsley Field air and ground crews compiled a record of 13,000 accident-free flying hours during1 the period Jan. 1, 1960 through June 30, 1961. Also present for the ceremony were Col. , Leon W. Gray, Portland Air Defense Sec tor commander, and Lt. Col. Phil, lip A. Rand, 322nd FIS command er. ' Air Force Band Here A star - studded organization, whose musically talented mem bers will entertain Klamath resi dents Wednesday night, is made up of performers from 20 sym phony orchestras and 16 "name" dance bands. The United States Air Force Band and its vocal component, the Singing Sergeants, will give a public concert at 8 p.m.. Pelican Court, Klamath Un ion High School. Over 1,400 professional musi cians in the service were audi tioned before the 100-member band was complete. The United States Air Force Band holds attendance records in every country in which it has1 appeared. At Toronto's Exhibition Grounds bandshell, they played to 50,000 people daily lor 34 days, Similar receptions were at Santi ago, Chile, where they drew 63, 000; Beirut, Lebanon, 70,000; Na ples, Italy, 80.000; Berlin, 130,000 and Manila, 200,000. Tickets will be available from Bowden's and Derby's Music Stores, from Klamath Union High School music students and at the door. Tickets are $1, general ad mission and $1.50 reserved. ' Triumph Of Socialism "The crumbling of the colonial system is the second in historical significance among the results of world development. The third result of world de velopment is an acute all-around weakening ,of capitalism and a fresh sharpening of its general crisis." The party program before the congress was published July 30, and many Westerners immed iately called it a pie-in-the-sky scheme. With a target date of 1980, it calls for free rent, medical care, education, utilities, local trans-! portation and factory lunches by then. It also pledges to overtake the United States in per capita pro duction, to maintain peaceful co existence between socialist and capitalist states, to support Inde pendence movements throughout the world, and to keep Soviet mil Telephone UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (API, Harried United Nations officials trying to function without a secretary-general face a showdown! over the U. N. Congo command's cease-fire agreement with break away Katanga Province. Both the Soviet Union and the central Congo government warned they would challenge any at-: tempt by the secretariat to ratify the agreement. President Moiscj Tshombe's Katanga government refused to release 184 U, N. sol diers it is holding prisoner until the secretariat approved the truce pact. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin accused the U. N. Congo command Tuesday ot bypassing the Security Council by agreeing on a cease-fire and threatened to take the issue be fore the council. He demanded that the U. N. Congo force take action to end Katanga's secession from the rest of the Congo. Congo Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko called a news confer ence and denounced the cease-fire as blackmail by Katanga Presi dent Moisc Tshombe's regime. Bomboko hinted his government would seek Soviet aid to smash Tshombe's regime unless the U.N, acted against him. The Congo diplomat said that if the cease-fire is ratified by the secretariat, "the trust we put in On Cosmetics Plant Explodes CHICAGO (AP)-Moro than 70 persons were injured, some scri-l ouslv. today in a chemical explo sion that rocked a West Sidel neighborhood. Fire Commissioner .Robert Quinn placed the casualty figure at between 65 and 73 and said person was missing. Officials of the plant where a chemical build ing was leveled said they knew ot none missing. . -r The blast one employe said there were two blasts in rapid succession flattened a one-story isolated-chemical building of He- lene Curtis Industries at 4401 W. North Ave. ' . - .' , The force of the explosion was so great that it smashed all plate glass windows, about 300, on one wall of a plant of the Zenith Ra dio Corp. across the street. Work ers at dosks and benches lined along the wall were cut by fly ing glass. Windshields and windows of scores of aulomomics ot Curtis and Zenith employes parked in the area were smashed in as if by sledgehammers. ' Windows in. a nursing nomc nearby were broken but none of the patients was hurt. A heavy odor ot suituric acia spread over the site and impeded Johnson Sees Sam Rayburn DALLAS, Tex. (AP)-Vice Pres. ident Lyndon B. Johnson spent an hour with Sam Rayburn Tuesday and later told newsmen that "it was sad to see him so sick." The veteran House speaker, who has been at Baylor Hospital since Oct, 2, is suffering from incurable cancer. Medical bulletins Tuesday said Rayburn, 79, was resting comfort ably but that his .condition re maincd serious. ilary forces at top efficiency. 'American capitalism has passed its prime and is declin ing, Khrushchev declared, as serting that the "American finan cial oligarchy" does not have the strength or the means to imple ment its claims "to the role of savior of capitalism and its claims to world domination. The premier said two Inter twining trends are operating In the "imperialist camp": A trend toward joining all forces against socialism, and a trend toward mounting rivalry "between the imperialist powers and the other countries of the capitalist world." "The United States has not suc ceeded and will not succeed in overcoming the latter trend,' Khrushchev asserted. He charged that imperialism is compelling mankind to spend at least $100 billion annually (or mil itary purposes. TU 4-8111 Faces Showdown Congo Cease-Fir the United Nations may vanish." The Katanga issue raised the first real crisis since Dag Ham marskjold was killed in a plane crash. It underlined the need for an interim secretary-general to make top-level decisions. In formed sources said top secreta riat officials were wary of ratify ing the cease-fire agreement for fear of incurring the wrath of! both the Soviet bloc and the I Congo government. Western diplomats predicted! that if the agreement were rati fied, the Russians would go be (ore the Security Council and challenge the action as an illegal seizure of power by secretariat officials. In a letter to Council President Turgut Menemencioglu of Turkey Zorui declared that now that a central government has been formed in the Congo, U. N. forces have no excuse for "not taking action to insure the strictest exe cution" of council resolutions call ing for reunification of Katangi with the rest of the Congo. Selection of a successor to fill out Hammarskjold's unexpired! term has been blocked by a Soviet-American deadlock over what areas his top advisers should be drawn from. The United States has been arguing for five undersecretaries! an American, ' a Russian, an rescue work. Heavy plate glass windows were blown from build ings in a radius blocks from the site of the blast.. The most seriously injured vic tim brought to Wallher Memorial Hospital was a man painfully burned on the face. Most of the) other injured suf fered shock and minor hurls. Dr. Samuel Grant, research di Sale Of Jets Defended By WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower may have taken some of the steam out of the heated contro versy that has rumbled over the U. S. sale of 130 surplus- jet fighter planes to Communist Yu- via. . He declared Tuesday that the transaction was "in the best in terests of the United States." Eisenhower and the White House agreed that' the former chief executive had not personal ly briefed President Kennedy on the plane deal. But the White House said military aides of the two had gone over the matter. There had been published reports that Eisenhower personally had given Kennedy information on the purchase agreement during t h e changeover of administrations. The White House said the sale continues a program begun under former President Harry S. Tru man and maintained under tne Elsenhower administration. The jet deal Itself was completed un der the Kennedy administration. However, Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va., Tuesday called the deal fantastic and predicted that when this matter is brought be fore Congress, the proceedings will be overwhelmingly repudi ated." The White House version of the sale's background and the state-! mcnt issued by Eisenhower were in general agreement. Eisenhow er put out the statement a short lime after he had commented on the matter at a news conference, Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary, said tho former president had left a list of things to be considered by the incoming Blast Off Time Flips o JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) So you think you got teen-age telephone trouble? Consider the plight of Uie Jef ferson City doctor whoso number1 is 3-4321. Teen-agers have been calling and when the doctor's reception ist answers: "This Is 5-4321, " the kids shout, "Blast off." They're going to get the num ber changed. Weather Ml. Shasta-Siskiyou Fair to day and tonight; cloudy Thurs day; little temperature change. Northern California Fair and slightly cooler inland through Thursday except local morning coastal fog. Asian, a Latin American and a West European. The Russians countered that if a West Eu ropean were included, a sixth un dersecretary must oe drawn from Communist Eastern Europe. Asia would contribute the interim secretary-general, the Americans and the Russians having agreed on U Thant of Burma. The United States rejected the six-man lineup, caliing it the or iginal Soviet Troika proposal in disguise. It was reported Tuesday the United States was prepared to settle tor lour deputies with the West European omitted. West Eu ropean delegates were furious at the prospect of being omitted for the first time from the top hier archy of an organization they helped found. They said they would not accept any such ar rangement. The United Slates is expected to take the issue directly to the General Assembly and ask it to elect an interim secretary-general if the deadlock is not broken this week. The Russians have made clear they will not accept any such bypassing of the U.N. Char ter, which says the Security Coun cil musl nominate the secretary general. And even members of the U.S. delegation concede it will be hard to find anyone to take the job in the face of Soviet opposi-a tion. rector for Helene Curtis Indus tries, said he believes Uie blast was caused by a chemical reac tion to mixtures involving alcohol. The workers were making resins lor use in cosmetics, he said. All first-floor windows in tho four-story Zenith plant across the street were blown in and Dying glass struck workers at desks and benches along tho windows. To Slavs Eisenhower administration and Uie jet sale was one of them. There were reasons advanced why tho program should go for ward, yes," Salinger said in re ply to a question. As outlined by Salinger, this is the chronology of the transaction: The Defense Department pro posed the sale of the F86D sabre jets on Aug. 26, 1960; the State Department asked for clarifying information Oct. 25; the Defense Department supplied Uie informa tion Dec. 14; the State Depart ment approved the sale last Jan, 16 a few days before the Repu lican Eisenhower administration left office and the Democratic Kennedy , administration took over. Salinger said clearance by Uie Defense and State Departments was all the approval needed for Uie sale. U.S. Stalls Transaction WASHINGTON (AP)-The Unit ed States has shelved at least temporarily a request by Yugo slavia to buy 500,000 tons of sur plus American wheat. State Department officials indi cated this was an outgrowth cf the displeasures of President Ken nedy toward Uie Tito government because of pro-Soviet positions Yugoslavia took at the recent Belgrade conference of 25 una ligned nations. Officials said U. S. Ambassa dor George S. Kennan had out lined the policy of the u. S. gov ernment toward Yugoslavia in a meeting last week with Yugoslav Vice President Mijalko Todorovic in Belgrade. The policy in effect continues all present commitments by the United Stales for economic assist ance but halts consideration ot new programs. Kennan gave this answer after having been asked orally hy To dorovic to clarify 0. S. policy to- -ward Yugoslavia, officials said. Earlier It had been reported that Yugoslavia sought clarification : through a formal note rather than : in an oral statement, - . 1 i o
