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la The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS The news is full of whoppers to day. There are the whopper nuclear bombs the Russians exploded, but failed to tell their people about. In explosive power, they ran somewhere from SO million to 100 tons of TNT. It appeai-s that Mr. Kroosh. for reasons of his own, said nothing about them on his home radio. . So - We put on a whopper broad cast to tell the Russians and the people of their satellite countries what happened. Between them, our Voice of America and our Ra dio Liberty used some two million watts of radio power to crash through the communist jamming which was done by some 2,000 commie jamming transmitters in an effort to blot out the Voice of America and the Radio Liberty broadcasts. Our broadcasts were in eight languages English, Russian Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian Their theme was HAVE YOU BEEN TOLD? Our theory was t at they hadn't been told and V ight be somewhat shaken if they heard the truth. Question: . If they heard it, in spite of the 2.000 jammers, WILL THEY BE LIEVE IT? Anyway, it was worth a try. I can't escape the feeling that I'd suspect there was a screw loose somewhere if my country went to all that trouble to keep me from hearing something. So let's hope the effort to TELL ALL was worth its cost. Then There's the whopper electronic computer center the Internal Rev enue Service is building at Mar- tinsburg, West Virginia a hop, skip and a jump out of Washing ton. The center is a brick struc ture costing $150,000 that will eventually house a master file on 80 million individual and corpo rate taxpayers. The file will in clude 400 MILES of magnetic tape. By the time it comes into use, each of us will be given a NUMBER. Each number will be put on a card, and all the cards will be run through the electronic brain machine. The machine is supposed to TELL ALL. Among other things, it is sup posed to eliminate the confusion resulting from duplicate names. Each Bill Smith and each Sam Jones will stand on his own feet when the cards go through the machine. The svstem is expected to spot TAX CHEATERS-who arr esti mated to evade about FIVE BIL LION DOLLARS in taxes each year. ' It sounds wonderful. But a chilling thought occurs. There was that Army electronic brain the other day that went hog wild one morning and ordered SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS worth of stuff the Army didn't want and didn't need. Do these electronic jiggers have electronic hangovers? Another thought: If Uncle gets the additional five billion dollars he has been getting gypped out of, what will he do with it? Will he cut taxes? Will he start paying off his debt? Or will he just SPEND $3 hi lion MORE? Censor Law Denial Held By Top Court WASHINGTON (AP)-The Su preme Court refused today to re-. view a lower court decision wai a movie censorship law in Pennsy vania is unconstitutional. The refusal means that the dc cision, made by the Pennsylvania! Supreme Court, is permitted tol stand. The censorship law called for aDoroval of films by a three- member board appointed by the coventor. Anyone showing a dis approved film could be fined anJj jailed. The state court held that the law "plainly violates" federal and state constitutions. The state envernment appealed on the ground the decision gave a cleai road to "smutmongers." As is usual, the U.S. Supreme Court gave no' reason for its re fusal to grant the slate a review Shooting Times November 7 OREGON ;M a.m. 4:55 p.m. CALIFORNIA 4:12 a.m. 4:57 p.m. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Fair. High temperatures 5-57: low tonight lg-SJ. , High Sunday - 51 Low last Bight 2D Precip. past 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 1.7s Same period last year .59 If ire $me$ 'fort Hikmssth Border Police Exchange Grenades During Fight Over Old Wire Fence BERLIN (UPI) A dozen West Berlin police today beat back about 200 Communist police sup-; ported by armored personnel car riers and water cannon in a bor der battle with tear gas grenades,1 West Berlin reported. . Although - outnumbered more than 16 to 1, Western police man aged to pull down a wire fence! Viet Mam Losing Nation To Rebels SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) South Viet Nam's pro-Western government is slowly losing its war against Communist rebels. The next few weeks may decide whether this trend speeds up or reverses. Even if U.S. troops are not sent. there are expected to be large new outlays of American aid, which has already totaled more than $2 billion. Officials here Hnn'l alwavc want to be quoted on such dark views, : but that is the general picture. There are three mainr forces involved: The guerrilla enemy di rected and reinforced from Com munist North Viet Nam. the United States, and the 7-vear-nM government of President Ngo Dinh Diem. The Communists, called the Viet Cong, have stepped up the war to a dangerous degree in recent weeks. . ' ? " Despite a variety of hints in the press and by officials here - that Viet Nam would welcome U.S. combat troops, the feeling is still that President Kennedy's fact finding mission led by Gen. Max well D. Taylor considers this is not the lime. Diem's government has taken a series of steps to meet the grow ing Communist threat. They include proclamation of a state of emergency, new revenue raising taxes, military training for women and a variety of austerity moves such as three meatless days a week, cuts in high official salaries, working government offices on Saturday afternoon, and formation of mili tary units for civil service work ers. Las Vegas Target For Crime Probe LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department has picked Lap Vegas as the launch ing site lor a new drive against national crime syndicates. The chairman of the State Gam- ing Control Board, Ed Olsen of Reno, immediately promised to! support the drive. But he said the Washington announcement of the investigation sounded "just a little bit sensational." Justice Department officials in Washington anr ounced Sunday Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy has ordered a systematic investigation to determine: l.l The extent to which syndicated crime leaders are using Las Vegas as a meeting place; 2. Whether a race track wire service is being run here for bookmakers throughout the coun try: i3. The backgrounds of omc gambling casino operators. Olsen said the attorney general has been interested in Nevada for, ome time "and we've been work- ng in close cooperation with Mr Kennedy." "Tne state is just as interested n uprooting racketeers if any ire here as he is," Olsen said Olsen said his agents more' :han 50 of them "Keep track ol national underworld figures that ome to Las Vegas. "If meetings of any significance! 'involving crime leaders) oc-j curred in Nevada, we'd likely know about them.' Las Vegas has long been under scrutiny of federal agents. But un til Congress recently passed legis- Price Tea Cents 14 Pafe which the Communists, had put up on West Berlin territory. The Communists threw 30 tear gas grenades with explosive charges. The West Berliners re taliated with 60. ine incident occurred along a 200-yard stretch of the Wilhelms- ruh railway yard at the French sector border with East Germany. Many of these moves are only psychological and much could still be done in the way of austerity in the cities. The army is considered general ly loyal, but many troops have been literally fighting every day for years. They are tired, and their officers have at times been frustrated by the political dealings that center around Diem's palace. U.S. Orbits Discoverer VANDENBERG AFB, Calif, (UPI) The 34th Discoverer satel lite hurled into space around the earth's poles was in "near nomi nal orbit1' today according to Air. Force tracking devices. The 25-foot long satellite, the space-research workhorse for the United States, was launched Sun day in what the Air Force termed "a real clean shot." Each rocket stage functioned as- expected in clear, summer-like weather. The nose of the 1,700-pound sat ellite carried an instrument cap sule which scientists hoped to re trieve over the Pacific Ocean with in a maximum of four days. Nine Discoverer capsules have been recovered, including six that were snatched in flight by snare trailing airplanes. Three others were fished from the sea. The Air Force did not disclose the contents of the 300 pound, gold plated capsule launched Sunday. lation directed at syndicates, s Justice Department official said, these agents could do little more than look for hoodlum interests in Las Vegas enterprises and inves tigate possible income tax viola tions. The new lews, among other! things, prevent racketeers from crossing state lines in pursuit of unlawtul activities. Atomic Expert Offers Americans have wasted enough time already in preparing (or defense, says Prof. Willard t.i Libby. A Nobel prize winner, Dr. Libby himself has wasted very little time in his 52 years. Not only did he invent the "atomic clock" that, won him the award, but he coined the term "fallout," he served on the Atom ic Energy Commission and he worked on the atomic bomb in World War II. Now this foremost scientist has written for the Herald and News a series of 15 articles telling what the ordinary citizen can do about the hazards of the H-bomb. They start today on Pace I. You won't want to miss a (ingle one of these authoritative, informative articles on the most important topic of the day. Among the installments are ones on how to construct a $30 shelter and increase your chances by 100, how a 13,000 shelter may increase the odds to 10.000 to one, what U.0F 0SuI3.1AR? G2N. RSF. AND CCO'JH tt mu mm A second tear gas battle be tween East and West Berlin po lice occurred at another section of'the border. The East Germans did not use their guns but they did open fire at two other border- points and captured two refugees at gunpoint. Remove Wire Fence The Wilhelmsruh battle started when six West Berlin workmen protected by 12 West Berlin po licemen began removing a wire fence the Western police said had been built by the Communists three feet inside Western terri tory to stop refugees from fleeing to the West. " Sixty eastern border policemen arrived and demanded the work be slopped. The West Berliners ig nored them. Another 140 Commu nist police arrived in armored personnel carriers The Communist police . wore steel helmets and carried sub machine guns. Two armored water cannon drove up to the eastern side of the border. West Berlin police said the tear gas battle lasted an hour and a half and when it was over they continued to pull down the fence without further interference. They said about three-fourths of t h e Communist grenades failed to go oif. Border Still Sealed The dismantling of the fence did not leave a hole in the border. The Communists had a barbed wire barrier behind it on their side. . . Police said 14 Eastern Zone residents escaped to the West in 24 hours up to 7 a.m. today but the Communists caught 27 others trying to flee For the third straight, day Com munist police used their guns to cut off escape. It was not known it they hit any of the refugees, Disease Hits Storm Area BELIZE, British Honduras IUP1) Doctors battled dysen tery and possible epidemics of pneumonia and typhoid today to prevent a further loss of life to hurricane Hattie. The toll of known dead already is more than 200. Authorities ordered mass crema tions to combat the menace of typhoid. Doctors said dysentery was prevalent and that a rise in the incidence of pneumonia could be expected among survivors of the killer storm. British authorities commandeer ed laborers and trucks to help in the immense task of rebuilding Belize. They said all able-bodied men found loitering would be pressed into work details. Workers continued to pull bodies of victims from debris- strewn mudflats. U.S. Navy doctors and nurses working alortgside British relief crews and those of private agen cies here inoculated an estimated 12,000 persons in two days. Five thousand additional shots were ad ministered to residents of Stann Creek. children should be told about the1 danger, just what fallout will and will not do, how long to stay un der cover, how to do a cleanup job on contaminated dust, how loJ get community shelters started, etc. Supplies Short Dr. Libby says he wanted to write the series because he has 'long been interested in civil de fense, and the backbone of civil defense is shelters " "I am worried." he notes, "that the supply of building materials may fall down. Nobody estimated the need for it. Many people are complaining they cannot buy the radiation meters they want, or have trouble in getting delivery of materials to builj shelters. It was 33 years ago, as a sopho more at the University of Califor nia at Berkeley, that Dr. Libby decided to become a chemist in stead of a mining engineer. The industrious 6 foot 2 inch son of a farmer, he worked his iway through collt-ge nailing apple COS?. I.T3 CIV. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. . FORT KLAMATH - Restoiedlpossible" that the whole town. communication with this tonn late Monday morning brought a correction in the building de stroyed, by fire early Sunday morning. . Jirst reports listed the For Klamath Tavern and Hotel, a his toric landmark, as having been destroyed by flames, but later de tails indicate that it was the Wood River Tavern and an ad-! joining residence, owned by W. B, Hescoek, that were destroyed the flames. i ine tavern and dwelling were completely destroyed, Klamath County Fire Department said to day, but quick action by fire fighters from nearby Chiloquin, saved a number of other older i buildings in the town. Answering the call for assis tance from Klamath County were Winema Forest, Chiloquin Fire Department, Klamath Forest Pro tective Association and Oregon Technical Institute firemen. - County firemen said about 15; professional firefighters were bat tling the flames and fighting to prevent their spread throughout the town,- Birsl report of the blaze reached Klamath County firemen at 1.24 a.m. Sunday. ' , One injury was reported as a result of the fire. LaMar Ander son, who lives in a set of rental rooms behind the tavern, cut his arm in an attempt to escape the names. Anderson and bystanders at the scene said the blaze seemed to erupt from somewhere near the center of the tavern building. No cause was listed on the county fire department report. The next door house caught fire from heat radiation and sparks coming off the tavern. Firemen said it "was more than Nehru-JFK To Discuss i . .... Atom Tests NEWPORT. R.I. (AP) Presi deny Kennedy and Prime Minister Nehru of India meet today to be gin discussions of problems the world over, with heavy emphasis expected to be put on nuclear tests. Nehru has called the latest se ries of Soviet nuclear tests "an evil thing." Kennedy last week set in motion preparations for U.S. tests in the atmosphere. He said this country will conduct explosions in the aiP if an evaluation of the Soviet Un ion's shots indicate; that U.S. tests are necessary for the secu rity of this country and the free world. Kennedy arranged to greet Neh ru upon his morning arrival at Quonset Point Naval Air Station from New York. Nehru flew into New York Sunday after a stop over in London where he talked with Prime Minister Harold Mac millan. Nehru is expected to press Ken nedy for a moratorium on nuclear testing, "whatever happens." He reiterated his position that the im portant thing is to stop all tests now without waiting for a treaty "with inspection and controls and all that." The American and Indian posi tions also are diametrically op posed on the question of admission of Red China to the United Na tions. Advice On Surviving boxes together at a penny a box. Earning not only a bachelor s de-i PROF. WILLAR0 F. UIIY gree. but a master's and a doc torate, he stayed at the univer sity as an instructor. Libby was one of the first to MO.VDAV. NOVEMBER 6, 1961 Tavern most of which is wooden frame construction, could have gone up. Early arrivals on the scene, Chil oquin Fire Department and forest service personnel, managed 10 t!ei - doun nearby buildings which kept the blaze from engulfing other structures. The blaze was the second ma jor fire in Klamath Countv with- hi the past five days, Thursday morning, the fivo members of the Roy .X. Clary family burned to death in a one- story frame house in Pelican City. Many Lost As Vessel Explodes TUNIS (UPI) - The 7,129-ton Scottish steamer Clan Keith, car rying a crew of 88, exploded Sun day night in heavy seas and sank early today about 20 miles off the Tunisian coast. The Tunisian shipping radio sta tion said 60 persons were miss ing and eight had been rescued A French freighter spotted two bodies floating in the water, the station said, and the British war- shin Blake nicked un another. Many of the steamer's lifeboats have been found floating empty, the station said. The British freighter Durham Trader was reported to have res cued six men and a Finnish ship two others. (In London, the Clan Line Com pany, owners of the ship, said at least one crewman was dead, six have been rescued and 61 were missing. The vessel was reported under charter to the British In dia Company. - (The ship carried 14 European officers, mostly British and Scot tish, and 54 Pakistani crewmen, the company said. I The dead man was a Pakis tani who had been picked up and (hen died, the company said. ) The freighter was on a trip from Middlesbrough, England, to Colom bo, Ceylon, and carried a cargo of vegetable oil, Army Okays Resignation WASHINGTON (AP - The Army has accepted the resignation of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, who claimed he was subjected to censorship in campaigning against communism. Walker's resignation was re ceived Friday by the Army.- ine nrroy issues mis lerse statement Saturday: 'The Department of the Army announced today that the rcsigna lion of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walk er has been accepted Nov. 4. In quitting, rather than retiring, Walker passed up more than $12,000 a year in retirement pay He has not indicated what hu plans are. Top Pentagon officials have de nied the charge of some members of Congress that Walker was stripped of command of the 24th Division and handed an official rebuke because he was a zealous anti-Communist. realize that new atomic techni-i niques were destined to abolish some of the traditional distinctions between chemistry and physics. To further his researches, he: moved in 1941 to Princeton on a Guggenheim fellowship. A lew months later, however. World War II broke out and Dr. Libby offered his services to the government and began .work on the super-secret Manhattan Proj ect which created the atomic bomb. Scientific "Coach" Not until the Hiroshima explo-! sion did Libby'a wife, a former California physical education teacher named Lconor Hickey, learn what her husband had been helping develop. After, the war, Dr. Libby re turned to the research lab this time at the Institute of Nuclear Studies. It was there that he made the discovery of an "atomic clock" that enables scientists to (date once living things by meas uring the amount of radioattivity Telephone M'Vty - ... SURVIVORS AND RUINS Su rvlvort of hurricane Hattie make their way past ruined buildings in street in Beliie, British Honduras, gathering the few persona) belong inqs they can rind in a city so ravaged that officials have decided to rebuffd ft in another location some 40 miles away. Long -Missing Daughter Reunited With Mother OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Don t say a word, the judge cautioned. So, though she had waited 16 months lor this moment. Mrs. Harley Sax, P - walked 11,10 -he-FBI oSUce with- out a word The 4-year-old blonde she found there looked at Mrs. Sax. In her1 blue eyes the watching judge saw a look of recognition. The young Albuquerque, N.M mother broke into tears. The childl ran into her arms. Tony Goes Back On Job To Tell, About New Son LONDON ( UPI Antony Arm strong-Jones, Karl of ' Snowdon, went back to work today to tell (he boys about his "wonderful' new son. Tony went back almost un noticed to his unpaid job at the British Industrial Design Center, for the first time in nearly two weeks. Several news photograph ers were at the center, but no more people than there normal ly would be on the busy Haymar- kct where the center is located. Since Thursday, Armstrong- Jones and his wife, Princess Mar garet, have been living at Clar ence House, home of the queen Tan Collectors Planning Machine MARTfNSBURG, W.Va. (AP)- The Internal Revenue Service an nounced today a two-year speedup1 its program to process all tax returns automatically at an elec tronic computer center in this Shenandoah Valley city. Internal Revenue Commissioner Mortimer M. Caplin said IRS ex pects to complete the conversion to H-Bomb still existing in their remains. It's been used to provide dates for such items as the Dead Sea Scrolls. In 1930 Atomic Energy Com mission Chairman Gordon Dean appointed Dr. Libby to the AEC'sl general advisory committee and in 1934, Libby himself became a commissioner. in this position he was the chief United States spokesman at the first international conference on. peaceful uses of atomic energy held in Geneva in 1955. Dr. Libby left the commission in 1959 to return to hij cherished re search lab at the University of California at Los Angeles. One of his main concerns is to produce more researchers, and to do so he has become personal teacher of 79 students who en rolled as freshmen last year. Dr. Libby ;ll follow the group: through it entire university course. See today's first Brliclc on Page 3. IV -4-8111 No. tm - V", A' There was no question, saidi Judge Seward L. Hart after the reunion Sunday, that the girl was Brenda Mavlene Jennings, daugh ter of Mrs. Sax by a previous mar riage. She had disappeared from her grandparents' home in Guth- ic, Okla., June 27, I960. The mother had sought the child; in 14 states, but it was the FBI and Judge Hart, of the Oma ha Juvenile Court, who finally brought them together. mother where Margaret gave birth; Friday morning to a son. All medical bulletins have stressed that mother and baby are doing well. , , The boy, who is fifth in line of succession to the throne and bears the title Viscount Linlcy of Nimas, has not yet been named and there has been no indication when his names will be announced or when the christening will take place. The Utile princess and her new son- spent a good day bunday with' Margaret reading some of the 1,000 or so congratulatory messages that pouted into Gar- lence House. Process computer operations by 1966. The agency had been thinking earlier in terms of 1966 or possibly 1969. The speedup announcement was made in a speech Caplin prepared (or the dedication of a $750,000 na-1 tionat computer center here. This brick structure eventually will house a master file on 80 million nav.- Thfl fila will cover 400 miles of magnetic tape to be slorediof ages, dividends and interest. in a single room about 30 by 40 feci. As part of the shift to electronic tax processing, every taxpayer will be given an identity number so individual accounts won't get mixed up. For 85 per cent of all taxpavers, this will be their Social Security number. All others, will be assigned numbers similar tn those used in the Social Security) program. Secretary of the Treasury Doug las Dilion. another participant in the dedication, emphasized in his prepared remarks that "the new technique will not dehumanize our tax administration. ft will not he man against machine the individual taxpayer against a giant. Impersonal men- (er (hat thrives only on numbers," Dillon said. Dillon said. "In fact, the new system should permit (he internal revenue service to devote more time to direct, personal contacts." IRS eventually wilt pay annual lion. The agency said the elec-1 Ironic ystcm will be more Weather Mf. Shasta-Siskiyou area Fair with little temperature change through Tuesday. Northern California Fair through Tuesday except same coastal overcast Tuesday; slightly cooler Brae coast Tuesday. Uf ' A NEA Telephoto. Judge Hart and Thomas Gearly, special agent in charge of the Omaha FBI office, said tlwy bad pieced together this story: The night Brenda disappeared she had been permitted to accom !pany , Billy Don Nelson, 29, of. Guthrie, a Jaroily friend, on an errand. Nelson and the child van ished. In August, 1960, neighbors in Omaha repotted a little girl cry ing at an upstairs window. The child officers found behind a dou ble-padlocked door had dyed hair. he was healthy, but the room was filthy, . : The man who posed as her father used the name of Jack W8- banks. He had served , a 10-day vagrancy sentence. ' Brenda became a court ward and was placed in a juvenile 'home. When Wilbanks Has unsuc cessful in gaining her custody, he 'disappeared. Working with the name , Wil banks, Judge Hart and the FBI learned of the missing girl in Okla homa. Wilbanks is the name of Mrs. Sax's parents with whom Brenda had been staying. That led to Sunday's meeting. The FBI said a comparison of pictures indicated the man who used the Wilbanks name in Omaha, and Billy Don Nelson are the same . individual. He is sought under a federal warrant charging unlaw ful flight, Gearly said. Gearty knew of no, motive for taking Brenda. Center pensive than the present one but will be Bb!e to do more work and raise more revenue. The government is counting en the computers to help defect fax chests, who are estimated to evade about fS billion in taxes each year. The computers will tax returns against reported pay- menl to Per in the form This task must now be done by hand, so only spot checks are possible. Adenauer Gets Post BONN. Germany AP Presi dent Hcinrich Luebka nominated Konrad Adenauer today for a fourth term as chancellor of WeA Germany. The nomination apparently end- ,cd successfully the 85-vear-old leader's desperate struggle to re tain the leadership he first took up 12 years ago. Luebke made the nomination in a letter to Eugcn Gerstenmafer, president of the Bundestag, at the request of Adenauer's Christian Democrat party and the Free Democrats, which agreed Satur day to form a coalition. The Bundestag will meet Tues day afternoon to vote.
