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con: .o ; uii . w la I. Day's Sews - By FRANK JENKINS Question: ' Do you want to escape lon range fallout from nuclear bomb If so, GO LIVE IN A DESERT. So says Nobel prize-winning chem ist Willard P. Libby at a new; conference in Los Angeles, whe-e he is attending the National Civil .Defense Council convention. Fallout, he says, is carried by rain. There is little rain in a di ert, he points out, so such an am would be relatively free from worldwide fallout. He adds that he is speaking of fallout n. blast, which is another matter. But it seems improbable tha. if Mr. Kroosh starts blast ing us he will choose deserts as the place lo drop his whoppeis. Se lf you're scared Get yourself a homestead in the widest and driest desert you can find. From Washington: The army has admitted that one of its electric brains, in a flash ot almost human fallibility, order .c: $7.4 million dollars worth of ui necded equipment for U.S. forces in Europe. Before the army dis covered the mistake and can celled the orders, quite a lot of the stuff had left for overseas. The mistake, it appears, wa.i caused by faulty wiring of the ma chine. It's at least consoling to learn that these super - brai.is aren't infallible. That brings up something eiae along the same line. A big store back East is considering the idia of a mechanical brain that wiJ tell a husband what to get in the way of a gift for his wife on those occasions when a gift is called for. It works like this: The husband tells the machine operator everything he knows about his spouse. This information is then put on punched cards and the cards are fed into the ma chine, which in a second or so spits out the answer, Hmmmmmm. Suppose a wire in its innards got misplaced, as was the case in the army's machine. Maybe husbands better stick to the o'd formulas for choosing gifts. More trivia in the news: Residents of the Stuyvesant town housing project near New. York complained for years because they had no police protection. Thairi complaints finally moved the cuy authorities to provide the neces sary police force. Now the populace is complainhs about the PARKING TICKETS that are being handed out. People are funny. As the an cient jingle puts it: "When it's hot we want it coit!; " When it's cold we want it hot. "Always wanting what we've not " Hoffa Pleads 'Innocence' ORLANDO. Fla. tUPl '-Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa pleaded innocent today for the second time in 10 months to mail fraud charges stemming from alleged misuse of $500,000 in teamsters funds. Hoffa and Detroit banker Rob- eft KT McCarthy Jr., a codefend ant, entered pleas at their ar raignment before U.S. District Judge Dozier Devane, who ac cepted their innocent pleas to the same charges here last Dec. 16. That case was dismissed on a legal technicality. Devane gave the defendants un til Dec. 1 to file motions. No trial date was set. Charles Davis, Orlando, one of Holla s attorneys, reveaicu uniay that he had filed an appeal with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans seeking to over turn a ruling by Federal Judge Joseph Licb. who ruled Oct. 13 against a Hoffa motion. The mo tion was to suppress "wiretap evidence" Hoffa charged was pre sented to the grand jury which indicted him. Bulletin WASHINGTON (API-The Unit ed Slates today successfully loft- ed a space rocket lo height of more than 4.000 miles to study the earth's "sunbonnet" the Ionosphere. J The rocket. Intended to reach an altitude of 4.500 statute mil before returning to the ear(h. ac tually Tearhed an altitude 4.JBI. Spare agency officials said the experiment could be termed "a damned good success." The 94-pound paylnad of the four-stage rocket Impacted in the Atlantic Ocean about 4.424 statute mile from Its Wallops Islaod. Vi launching site. It had blasted off ilO 3" PH (EST.) .u K ,. a .EL'jEME.OXSC. Klamath FalU and vicinity Mostly fair through Friday with some high cloudiness. Lnr 28-1!. Highs 58-64. High yesterday 69 Low last night 33 Precip. last 24 hours .01 Since Oct. 1 J! I Same period last year .56 hemh Algerian Mob Miots PARIS (API Reinforced police checked a mob of 4,000 Algerians that tried to riot through the streets of Paris Wednesday night for the second night in succession. Three Algerians were reported killed and at least 15 injured, and the police arrested 1.500 demon strators. . Ordered by the Algerian rebel government in Tunis to keep up their demonstrations against new Off -Beat Brain Sparks Spending WASHINGTON (API - The General Accounting Office said today miscalculations by both hu man and electronic brains were partly responsible for what it called a multimillion-dollar - ex cess cost of military aid to the Far East. The GAO, which serves as a watchdog over government spend ing, said it had come to this con clusion after investigating nearly half a billion dollars worth of spare parts accumulating in Asian warehouses and at the Army's big supply and inventory depot in Japan. . y In its report to Congress, the GAO said its survey resulted in potential savings of about $235 million in excess or useless spare parts. Another GAO report Wednesday said improper wiring of a calcu lating machine had led the Army in Europe to order $7.4 million worth of material it didn t need In today's report, GAO account ants said the" depot in Japan last year had "discovered" unrecord ed material valued at $58 million, Allies Frown On Big Bomb UNITED NATIONS, N.Y (AP) -The United States and its West ern Allies mobilized today for an assault on the Soviet plan to climax its nuclear weapon test se ries with a 50-megaton blast. The forum was the General As sembly's top Political Committee, which begins debate on proposals for a nuclear test explosion mora torium after defeating Soviet ef forts to have the test issue blan keted into the general disarma ment discussion later. The committee debate was ex pected to bring repeated calls for Moscow to call off the superbomb explosion. The United States and its Allies hoped the debate would marshal sufficient antitest opin ion to force the Russians to re consider. Sweden already has indicated the mounting concern among U.N. members over the Soviet an nouncement by appealing to the Kremlin to reverse its decision to touch o(f tne gjant bomb before the end of the month The 101-nation committee wound up two weeks of wrangling over priority Wednesday night with two rounds of balloting that sig nified defeats for the Soviet Union. Court Queries Appling On Reapportion Plan SALEM 'AP' The Oregon Su-1 Appling incorporates them into a preme Court, w ithout ruling the constitutionality of a legislative reapportionment plan submitted by sectary of State Howell App ling Jr., asked hull today H he wanted to submit a revised plan' The court, in a letter from Chief, Justice William M. McAllister to1 Appling, said it is authorized lo determine only if the plan submit- ted complies with the Constitu - tion Ti'e court. McAllister said, can irdee corrections in the plan only if it finds that it does not comply with the Constitution The letter noted that Appling (had ruled the legislature'! plan lad suggested two changes in hisiof rwpportionment unconstitution nitial plan. It said the court could al. The legislative plan made only rat make these changes un'Q;' token changes. Price Teu Cents U Pages Police curfew laws, Algerian workers aegan grouping shortly after dusk near the Rond Point de la De fense, a key traffic intersection at the western outskirts of greater Paris. Steel-helmcted riot squads blocked their movement toward a bridge over the Seine and a broad avenue leading to central Paris. Between 1.000 and 1,500 were surrounded for a time by the in making its "first complete in ventory ever taken" of military aid stocks. Meanwhile, the GAO said, additional supplies of the ordnance equipment had been or dered. The alleged error was at tributed by the GAO to depot officials. Their electronic calculating ma chine servants, however, were held accountable for errors in simple arithmetic that added to what the GAO called a vast over supply of items at the depot and to the cost of foreign aid. In one instance a machine was supposed to record the issue of 46 items, not specified in the re port. But the machine reported the issue of 111,146. In another verified instance, the GAO said, the machine recorded the issue of1 111,129 items to loreign countries when the actual number was only 29. The GAO said replacements for the items, which were never issued anyway, were ordered at acost of $177,990 ... .The GAO reported that this ex cessive accumulation of stocks in some places had been accompa nied by shortages elsewhere, null ing the military aid program. In Korea, for example, repair of 31,000 rifles and several thou sand Army vehicles had to be held up for lack of parts that were available in "huge quanti ties" but unreported in excess in nearby countries, the GAO said. Plane Thief Found Guilty EL PASO, Tex. (AP) An all- male jury took only 22 minutes Wednesday to convict Leon Beardcn, 38. of hijacking a con tinental airlines jet airliner over New Mexico Aug. 3. Bcarden was found guilty of kidnaping, obstruction of inter state commerce, and violating the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Act. Bearden and his son. Cody, 16, both of Coolidge, Ariz., await sentencing. Attorneys told jurors the Bear den trial was the first of its kind Cody Bearden went on trial with his father but Monday plead ed guilty under the Juvenile Cor rections Act to transporting i stolen vehicle across a state line. U.S. Dist. Judge R. E. Thoma- son said he would wait on pre- sentencing reports on both father and son before setting a sentenc ing date. Defense attorney Robert S. Pine asked for a verdict of inno cent by reason of insanity for Leon Bearden. I new plan The two changes suggested by Appling would give Klamath and Umatilla counties each a repre sentative by themselves and oneJ to share wita neighboring counties instead of having them each share both representatives. The Appling plan added re pre sentation in; he populous areas of 'Western Oregon in kne with the jSupreme Court order and reduced the representation of Eastern Ore gon in the legislature. The court ordered Appling lo re apportion the legislature after it Check heavily armed riot forces without serious incident. But as tension mounted in chilly, driving rain, demonstrators opened fire on a police car, a headquarters spokes man said. The police returned the fire, and hospital authorities in the suburb of Nanterre said 3 dead and 15 injured were counted. One bod lay sprawled in the rain among a scattering of shoes dropped by the fleeing mob. Stout police barricades kept the mass of shooting demonstrators from reaching the heart of the city, but several hundred man aged to slip through by subway or on foot. Crying "Algeria for the Algerians!" they tried to pa rade but were quickly rounded up and hustled into police vans, that chugged off to detention centers at a sports palace, a stadium, and in a barracks area in sub urban Vincennes. There they joined more than 11,000 of their countrymen arrest ed Tuesday night when 20,000 rioted for four hours. The govern ment today began deporting about 1,500 of those arrested Tuesday to Algeria and said many more would follow. Telegraph Strike Held By Court SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals early today issued a temporary restrain ing order torbidding a telegraphers strike 'against Southern '-Paoitic railroad. Union officials said they might not be able to prevent some work stoppage at the 7 a.m. dead line. The court handed down the or der after an unprecedented mid night session. The order ruled out a walkout that could have tied up Southern Pacific operations in Cal ifornia, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Texas. However, George Leighty, presi dent of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, said picket lines a! ready were forming and predicted some work stoppage because of the difficulty in communicating1 with union members throughout the area. A spokesman for the railroad said, "We'll do our best to run normal operations." Southern Pacific claimed that a full strike would have cost $1 mil lion a day and would have forced a layoff of 40,000 employes. Chief Judge Richard H. Cham bers said the court was mindful that thousands of commuters would be waiting for their trains this morning and that millions of dollars worth of fresh, perishable vegetables would be "rolling However. Chambers said the court had "some doubt" whether the railroad would ultimately pre vail in its arguments. It was or dcred to post a $50,000 bond pend ing the outcome of the case. Court Backs Conviction SALEM (APi The convic-i tion of Levi S. McDonald, a mem ber of the striking Portland Stere otypy's Union, for the dynamit ing of six Portland newspaper1 delivery trucks in January of HifiO, was upheld by the Oregon Supreme Court Wednesday. McDonald, at one time a nego tiator for the Stereotypers in their strike against the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal, has been free on $22,500 bail during the long legal proceedings. Last May the court upheld Mc Donald's conviction in the dyna miting of four other trucks. His attorney said he will petition the court for a rehearing of Wednes day's opinion. A pelition for rehearing of the May opinion already has been denied by the state court. Mc-I Donald's attnrneo has a.'ked the! U.S. jjupreme Court o take juris-1 diction in that case, but the high court has not ruled on it yet. McDon! face a possible max imum sgjtence of tl.nm in fines and 10 years in prison if ylh -convictions are upncia. lb wtm MtW$ KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. yd. v vv v J i I. t t ,V...,y... , : i ' v " V " ' i . , :f : "' COLEEN FINCHUM The Klamath Basin Potato King dom awaits the coronation Friday night at Merrill of a new queen to rule over the 25th annual Klamath Basin Potato Festival which officially opens with the royal event during the banquet in the Merrill Elementary School. Entry of the queen and her court is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. with the banquet to follow. She will ba crowned by James Boyle, division head of the Allied Arts and Sciences, Oregon Technical Institute, who will also be guest speaker. Potato Festival Opens On Friday By RUTH KING MERRILL The bulkers are be ing manned, the pickers are busy in the potato fields of the Bas'-i laden trucks hauling -tons on tubers roll through the harvested earth to bins in potato cellars . Men and women toil and, en dure the dust and pocket reward.' of the backbreaking work that brings forth a crop to be spen on its way to market and to tabi-s many states ... the rush of the 1961 potato harvest is un derway and. amid it all, commit tees rush too, to celebrate that harvest with opening Friday of the 23th annual Klamath Bas'll Potato Festival at Merrill. For the last quarter of a cen tury the festival has marked the end of another growing season. the fulfillment of effort, the satis faction of production, the promi.-e of revenue and a time for relaxa tion from the pressures of farm ing. . . a time for neighbors to visit, exchange ideas, and to "size up" the country's problems. This year, festival dates fall on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20-21, with the weatherman promisi.ig sunny skies. The first official function, that makes starry-eyed royalty of love ly lasses from the Basin's high schools, will be the crowning of willowy Queen Colecn Finchum o! Henley and introduction of her court during the banquet Friday night Queen Coleen, the daughter o' Mr. and Mrs. .1. D. Finchum Henley district ranchers, is the granddaughter of pioneer ranen- crs. the late R. C. (Lumi Short and Mrs. Elizabeth lnai Short ot Henley. Her grandfather Sho'i was one of the first producers of potatoes on a commercial scale in the Klamath Basin The new queen will be crowned by Prof. James Boyle, division head of Allied Arts and Science Oregon Technical Institute. Hi guest speaker. Boyle s address, in light approach, will he on "Hi:-I O'Neill School Dedication Sunday Over 20 years of edorl by school boards of the city school system will culminate Sunday ;n Ihe dedication of Lucile O'Neill School, 1336 Avalon Street. The ceremonies Sunday are open to the public and will beam at 2 p.m : honored guest is Mrs. Lu cile O'Neill, longtime educator for whom the school is named. Mrs O'Neill's vital interest education has encompassed prac tically every phase of the leach ing profession from classroom lo school board. She has also served as chairman of the State Board of Eduction and served on the Governor s interim committee on Education in Oregon in 1949-30. Tii need for an elementary facility in the southeast portion of THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1961 4 man Relations and the Potato The I960 queen, Donna Micka Matin ini,-nrf,., iho ,- including Princesses Susan Todd, 'fulelake; Shcri Wolff, Chiloqltin Naomi Branham. Bonanza: Rosa lind Crockett, Merrill; Barbara Pills, Malin. and (he petite jun ior attendants, 5-year-olds from Queen Coleen's own community Susan Fairclo, daughter - of die Paul Falrclos, and Bonnie Wood ard, daughter of the Warren Wood- ards. ' - The 6:30 p.m. banquet in tr.c grade school gymnasium will fo - low the coronation. Alonzo Hodges will emcoa the program to be provided from local talent by Mrs. Halbert Wilson of Merrill. Attend ance of some 300 guests is antici pated. The dinner wil be pre pared and served by the Morrill Veteran of Foreign Wars Auxil iary. Tickets are on sale at th; Merrill Pharmacy, Merrill Clotli ing Store, Hodges Grocery in Mer rill, the chamber of commerce in Klamath Falls, and al the doot A square dance in the commu nity hall will follow the banquet All agricultural, community Mower snow, potato loons ano lommcrcial exhibits in and arou,.d the high school gymnasium and I he community hall will be open during both days Trophies or cash awards, lo be presented during Ihe banquet. will go to potato glowing chair. pions in several commercial and certified seed divisions Saturday will be crammed whh activity from the moment that Lewis Kandra, veteran parad-i marshal, leads the big paradi through Merrill, starting "on the button" at 11 a.m. With past his tory of excellence for Potato Foa tival parades, a crowd that will fill the town is expected. Queen Coleen and the court will ride on a mystery float planned by Tulelake Rancher Dan and Li1 lian Geancy. There will be num- (Condnued on Page 4-A) School District No. 1 territory was felt as early as April, 193S, when a tract of land was acquired in an area nearly adjacent to the Li cile O'Neill School today. The 1940s brought war and the U.S. government bought the school district's tract for emergency housing. In 1951, the present site was purchased: it contains some 20 acres hounded by Eberlci.i, Avalon and Shasta Way. Maste- site plans were developed In 195J and the contract for construction let on June 7, I960. The multipur pose room, in which Sunday's ce--emonies Mil be held, was con tracted in March, 19fct. The program for Sunday ope-.s with a musical prelude by t Klamath Union High School stri.i; Telephone Reds Renew On Berlin Air WASHINGTON APi - Diplo matic sources said today Moscow has sent a note renewing a Soviet stand on Berlin air corridors that is unacceptable to the West. The text of the Soviet note, de livered to the American, British and French Embassies in Mos cow, was not immediately availa ble here. Informants said the Soviet com munication replied to Sept. 8 Western notes warning the Krem lin that any interference with the air traffic linking Communist-encircled West Berlin with West Germany would be aggressive action." Moscow was said to have de dared again its view that the air corridors are only supposed to be used for supplying the Western garrisons in Berlin. The Western powers regard the air lanes as a vital lifeline for the city, to be used for general civilian purposes and otherwise without Red inter ference. The Soviet note was not regard ed as a good omen in the simmer ing German dispute about which Secretary of State Dean Rusk spoke at a news conference Wednesday. Rusk, giving the first public U.S. government assess ment of Soviet Premier Khrush rhev's speech to the Communist party congress in Moscow, said he. could pass preliminary judg ment because the full text of the long Khrushchev address is still not available here. Ho declined to say whether it makes the pros- pools for peace better or worse Khrushchev s relaxation ol his Dec. 31 deadline lor his peace treaty with Communist East Ger- many. Rusk said, "may serve 10 reduce tension somewhat. But Khrushchev's "general ob- nervations about the German ana Berlin Dioblcms show little if any cnange trom wnai nas oecn suiu Before," husk anuea - The secretary of state made a Doint of Playing down the rift among the Allies in tneir ap proach to negotiating with the So viet Union on the German ques tion. And in doing this, in effect, he lectured against the French view that intensive Western prep arations now for East-West nego tiations would appear to the U.S. Opposes Reds' Entry WASHINGTON (API President Kennedy said today tha', "The United States firmly opposes the entry of the Chinese Communists into the United Nations or any ot its agencies. This was a statement Kenneuy had intended to make at a news conference had he been asked about the situation. A qucst.on about it arose today al Ihe regu lar news briefing held by pros' dential press secretary Pier.'t Salinger. Salinger was told thai there h 1 1 been some speculation at the U.N on whether exploration of U. S relations with Outer Mongolia was softening this country's oppo sition to admitting the Red C'li ncsc to the world organization Outer Mongolia as well as Red China are seeking U.N. member ship. Salinger was asked whether there has been even a slightly perceptible change in American policy on this point. Salinger said probably the bes' way to answer this was with the statement that Kennedy had had ready for last week's news con ference. He read it off. orchestra. Presentation of colors by Cub Scouts of Pack 77, then the anthem, "America." Invocation will he given by Cant. Jefferson E. Davis, chaplain, Kingsley Field. The Madrigal Singers of KUilS will precede presentation of guesis by Superintendent Ray Hunsakcr of the Klamath Falls City Schools The key address will be deliv ered by Francis I. Smith, chai man oj the Oregon State Board of Education. Mrs. O'Neill will re spond. Building presentation will be b R'yalt Padgett, school board n H chairman, and O'Neill Principal David Davit will accept It. Benediction will be offered b Rev. Laing W. Sibbet, paOir o! Peace Memorial Church. No. 6821 Kremlin as a sign of Western' weakness. Instead. Rusk served notice that the United States intends to con tinue its exploratory talks with Moscow to see whether there arc possible grounds for negotiations. Paris has been cool to these talks. Rusk said, the U.S.-Soviet dis cussions have only been a sound ing out operation, not negotia tions, and, second, "when a seri ous and dangerous difference arises, great-power statesmen should "establish contact in order to clarify the situation and to guard against a catastrophe which might be brought on by ig norance, miscalculation or mis take." The alternative. Rusk indicated, "would be for the two sides lo Hungarian TU 4-8111 Wins Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP)-A Hungarian-born engineer, who In his youth was fascinated by high- pitched gypsy music, was award ed the 1961 Nobel Prize for medi cine today for research on the hu man ear. Part of the research involved experimentation with lite car of a dead man. The prize, valued this year at i 250,200 Swedish crowns $48,300Board of Professors at the Royal in cash went to Dr. Georg von uckesy, i, now ol Harvard uni- versity in Cambridge, Mass. Von Bekesy began his career In Hungary as a telephone engineer. In his book, "Experiments In Hearing," he describes how he proceeded from basic -telephone techniques to elaborate experi ments on the human ear over a period of 34 years. Today's award said his work had enriched the whole field of acoustics. His oarly work was carried out at the Royal Hungarian Institute for Research in Telegraphy in Budapest to which he was linked for 1924-1946. In 1947 he came lo Stockholm and continued his ex periments at the Royal Institute of Technology and the Royal Car oline Medico-Chirurgical Institute. The latter awards the Nobel Prize in medicine. Von Bekesy was given the prize Red Puppet Faces End BERLIN (AP) Officials and commcntalors in West Ber.1.1 speculated today that Moscow may soon fire its East German puppet, Walter Ulbncht. There was widespread belief that East Germany's spade bearded chief of state would dis appear from the scene in an e' fort to make direct negotiations with the East German regime more palatable to the West. Soviet Premier Khrushchev dealt Ulbricht a bitter blow In his Kremlin speech Tuesday by aban doning the Dec. 31 deadline h had set for signing a peace treaty with East Germany. t FLIGHT SAFETY AWARD Mj. Gen. 8. J. Webster. left, chief of staff of Air Defense Commend, presented the Air Force Flying Safety Plaque Monday to Col, Ru pert C. Welch, right, Kingsley Field base commender, in e ceremony In the briefing room of the 322nd Fighter. Interceptor Squadron. Kingsley'i eir end ground crewt totaled 13,000 accident-free flying hours during the award period, Jen. I, I960, through June 30, 1961. Weather Northern California Cloudy Flirough Friday with sprinkles pos sible In southern San Joaquin and Salinas valleys; cooler. Ml. Shasta-Siskiyou Cloudy through Friday; cooler afternoons. Stand Lanes growl publicly at each other until something happens." At the same time. Rusk stated, the inter-Allied differences have more to do with procedure than with substance and that the West ern powers are agreed on defend ing their vital interests in Ger many and Berlin. And he said he believes Khrushchev understands "the seriousness of Western de termination" on Berlin rights. He said among other points that "would have to be further clarified" in U.S.-Soviet talks is whether the Russians would ne gotiate on more than just 'hrush chev's plan for a peace treaty and demilitarization of West Ber lin. That alone is too narrow an agenda for the West to discuss, he said. Doctor for "his discoveries concerning the physical mechanisms of stim ulation within the cochlea," said the official citation. The cochlea is a division of the labyrinth of the ear and Von Bekesy's work entailed a study of just how the ear hears. The award first of this year's series of Nobel prizes was given after a three-hour session of the Caroline Institute, which makes the choice. Von Bekesy started his career in Hungary as an engineer spe cializing in communication tech niques and went on to physiologi cal acoustics. Research in this field ultimately became his main interest and by the end of the 1920s he had made the discovery for which he now receives the Nobel Prize.. At the end of the war he moved u Stockholm and from there to Harvard. New Spend Plan Eyed WASHINGTON (AP) - Se.i. Styles Bridges, R-N.H., said todiy the Kennedy administration is planning new deficit spending "to touch off a boom which will carry through the 1962 election." Bridges, who heads the Senate Republican Policy Committer, called in a statement for an au3 terity program involving cutbacks in domestic spending, reduction of the federal payroll, and tax ad justments to promote economh progress. In a statement also inserted in the Congressional Record, Sen. William Proxmire. D-Wis., said he is disturbed by suggestions that the Kennedy administrati-in may have "discarded a balanced budget as a fiscal policy goal." Proxmire said President Ken nedy had "backed away from his previous budge t-strictly-in-bal-ance position" at a recent news conference. IP
