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la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Today's political news: The Democrats win the New York City mayoralty election. They also win the New Jersey gubernatorial election. It's LITTLE news in New York. It's BIU news in New Jersey. How come? Let's put it this way: In the famous words of John B. Bogart, city editor of the New York Sun back in the 1870's: "When a dog bites a man that is not news, because it happens so OFTEN. But if a man biles a dog, that IS news." In New York City yesterday. the dog bit the man. In New Jersey, the man bit the dog. That's about the long and the , short of it. Analytical news iote from Lon' don: The world communist movement appeared today to be headed for - a major SPLIT, with Moscow and Peiping openly contesting for the- leadership. Communist China, smarting under Soviet Premier Khrushchev's blunt refusal to com promise in their ideological dis pute on Marxism, has retaliated with a vengeance. In the past two days, in blatant defiance o! Khrushchev's denunciation of Stat in and the Stalinist leadership of Albania, Communist China has: 1. Praised Stalin as the true defender of Leninism. 2. Publicly supported the Alba nian Communist leadership as "correct, GLORIOUS and headed for greater achievements." Top Communist experts see nothing yet to indicate anything so drastic as a diplomatic break between Moscow and Peiping. But the contest has badly shaken the vision of "monolithic unity" the Communist world has tried to build up over the years. The London dispatch goes on: The Soviet Union has at least publicly proclaimed a long-range policy of peaceful coexistence with the West on the theofy that com munism now has a strong enough foothold to defeat the "capitalist" West ECONOMICALLY, without war. Communist China continues to maintain an openly belligerent at titude toward the West and in sists that communism should fan and actively support revolutions in all new emerging countries. Comment? H sounds too good to be true, but if it should be true it would be nice. WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT. HONEST MEN COME LMTO THEIR OWN. Firms Agree On Roseburg Settlements ROSEBURG (API Pacific Pow der Co. of Tenino, Wash., and Pacific Powder Sales of Oregon have agreed to pay a settlement of $1, 195.000 to claimants against them as the result of the explos ives truck blast which ripped Rose burg Aug. 7, 1959. The stipulation of full settlement to all parlies has been filed hi U.S. District Court in Portland. Total claims against the com panies reached about $9 million. . The final agreement was achieved Tuesday afternoon when Roseburg lawyers involved in Uie case signed the stipulation. Other lawyers in Portland. Salem and Eugene had signed earlier in the week. The stipulation, a 50-page docu ment, sets up two separate funds of payment. One is for personal and injury and death claims and the other property damages. Personal injury and death claims were given prior consideration The total payment w ill be made up of $500,000 in insurance the company had, JI04.000 trom insur ance held by Gerretsen's Build ing Supply which was also named as a defendant: $110,000 from a tax refund made the companies as a result of the blast: and $450.- ono in cash to be paid by Pacific Powder over the next five-year period. Before the settlement was made a total $1,650,000 in death and personal injuries claims had been filed in Oregon: one for $100,000 had been fileij in Washington: in surance companies had filed for t five million dollars for claims they had paid to property owners who had suffered damaces. These had all been filed in stale courts. In addition the stale had filed death and personal injury suit seeking $100,000 and the federal government had filed a claim for SW.OOft for damaegs to the Rose burg Post Office. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Variable high clouds through to night. Partly cloudy Thursday. Highs 52-57. Lows JO-M. High yesterday 48 Low last light 24 Precip. last Si hours .00 Since Oct. 1 1.7S Same period last year .59 New President Rules Ecuador QUITO, Ecuador AP) Camilo Gallegos Toledo, president of the Supreme Court, took office today as Ecuador's interim president Nehru, JFK Talk Cold War, Tests WASHINGTON I API - Presi dent Kennedy and India's Prime Minister Nehru engaged in their third round of marathon talks to day on the whole range of cold war problems. This session was an addition to their original schedule. The In dian leader said the extra meet ing with the President was simply a continuation of the conversa tions they have held over the oast two days. Kennedy also holds a news con ference late this afternoon. So far, Kennedy and Nehru have discussed most of the major problems of the cold war, includ ing Southeast Asia, Berlin and nu clear testing. The latter was one of the points of sharpest disagreement between the United States and India be fore Nehru's arrival Monday. Nehru, informants said, held that a voluntary moratorium on testing should be renewed with the Soviet Union and that this would not stop an agreement on controls from being worked out during the moratorium. The United States view is that a moratorium on testing places restraint on open societies such as the United States but does not prevent closed societies such as the Soviet Union from preparing for or conducting tests in secret. u. S officials have said the So viets made detailed preparations for their current nuclear tests during the moratorium the Soviet Union broke Sept. 1. White House press secretary Pierre Salinger said five topics dominated Tuesday's 2.i hour t3lk. In addition to nuclear testing they were: BERLIN Kennedy presented the U. S. position in detail. Nehru, j Indian sources said, told the President that free access to the city must be guaranteed to the Western powers and that Soviet Premier Khrushchev took the same position. Nehru talked with Khrushchev in September. The in formants said Nehru also stated that West Berlin residents should be left free to live their own way. SOUTHEAST ASLA They talked about Laos and South Viet Nam, both menaced by Commu nist forces, and discussed how in dependent governments can be maintained and protected from outside intrusion. BELGRADE CONFERENCE - Nehru gave his view of the Sep tember meeting of the 25 non- aligned nations. The positions ex pressed there by some of the na tions, particularly on nuclear test- were bitterly criticized in the United States as favoring the So viet bloc. NEW AFRICAN STATES - Problems of the area, presuma bly including the continuing trou ble in the Congo, were discussed but Salinger gave no details. FINISHING TOUCHES State Highway Department crews were tinUhmg work Tues day afternoon on the South 5ixth Street-Shesta Way section of th teit Side By pass. Th section was scheduled to be opened to traffic Wednesday afternoon. A cooperative eounty-stata project, th East Sid Bypass will avenhiaHy connect High way 66, south of Klamath Falls, with Highway 97, north of town. Total cost of th silt-tenth mil section was about $160,000. Herald mh lete f net 'lea Cents to w ith the announced backing of the armed forces. President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra quit Tuesday night under pressure of rising violence and military and public opposition. He has now been elected to the presi dency four times and thrown out three times. Army leaders met for four hours before deciding to support Galle gos. Later Gen. Gonzalo Villacis, director of the National Military Academy, announced the army's decision to the country by radio. Gallegos was reported to be! making up a Cabinet list repre senting all parties in an effort to restore peace to this strife-torn country. By backing the Supreme Court president, the army passed over both Velasco Ibarra and left leaning Carlos Julio Arosemena, the vice president. Gallegos was second in succession to the pros? dency after Arosemena. Reports from Guayaquil during the night Had ' said Congress proclaimed Arosemena president. Velasco Ibarra apparcnlly re signed under army pressure, there were reports he had flown to Panama. Other reports, not confirmed immediately, said he had taken refuge in the Argentine Embassy. ' Arosemena, arrested bv Velasco Ibarra, was released from prison during the night but his where abouts also were unknown. Velas co Ibarra had accused Arose mena, his onetime political allv. of being a Communist and at tempting to set up a dictatorship. iiaiiegos is expected to call na- tional elections soon to choose a constitutional president for the country. Gen. Villacis said the army is making itself responsible for pub lic oraer and called on all workers to return to their jobs. Reds Face Firm Stand By Adenauer BONN, Germany (AP) - Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer, just re elected to head a new coalition government for West Germany, is expected to continue his tough policy toward the Communist bloc. Associates say the 85-year-old chancellor will not soften despite the wish of his coalition partners, the Free Democrats. The Free Democrats have made plain they won't press too much for a change. Party chief Erich Mende has said his group would "try to make the others see our points but we won't force our ideas upon them." These Free Democratic ideas, conflicting with Adenauer's, in clude diplomatic recognition of such Communist countries as Po land and Czechoslovakia. They actually are insignificant com pared with the areas where the smaller party fully agrees with Adenauer and his Christian Dem ocrats. Thus there will be no change' in Bonn's full support of the At lantic Alliance and the European Economic Community and its pol icy of strengthening Europe coop eration through increased politi cal consultations. J Paget 1 CAMP DONATION Klamath Falls Exchange Club presented a $600 check to a fund for Camp Esther Applegate at Lake of the Woods. Mrs. Naomi French, Camp Fire Girls executive director, accepts the cheofe from Ken Bricco, Exchange president, while Bob flutter, club secretary, and Frank Drew, member of the Camp Fire Board of Directors, look on happily. The facilities, now more than 20 years old, are in need of permanent structures. Hot Spots Still But LA LOS ANGELES (UPI The worst fire in Los Angeles history which left an ugly black scar across the Santa Monica Moun tains was contained today but wind whipped hot spots flared up in a second major blaze. One hot spot in the Topanga Canyon fire erupted shortly after officials said the giant Bel Air blaze wes "contained and con trolled." The eruption sent all available forces to an area about one mile north of tlie Pacific Palisades Firemen said" they thought fee line could be held. H depended on the winds which shifted several times during the night. Residents were packed and ready to move on a moment's no; tice in case evacuation was nec essary. Homeowners could be seen mingling in the streets, waiting for official word. Late Tuesday night winds pushed the blaze toward the com- East Side Bypass Open To Traffic Wednesday One of the shortest freeways in: existence, we six-tenttis mile sec-j tion of the East Side Bypass be-: twecn South Sixth Street and Shas- ta Way, was scheduled to rje opened to traffic Wednesday af ternoon. Work on the abbreviated free-: way section was completed Tues day afternoon by State Highway Department crews. The state anu county cooperated to construct the highway section. The county agreed to grade and rock surface the section while the state agreed to nave and maintain it. The section is expected to oe a part of the East Side Bypass, which will eventually connect the South Sixth Street-Summers Lane intersection south of Klamath Falls with the Esplanado-Alameda- Kit Carson Way intersection the north end of town. The by pass will link State Highway 6 with U.S. Highway S7. Detmite 1 KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, Blaze 'Contained' munity. But early today winds; subsided, giving firemen renewed hope. The Topanga Canyon and Bel Air fires charred 11.000 acres since they started Monday. It was iestimated at least 250 homes, many in the $100,000 price brack et, were leveled. A second flare-up Tuesday night licked along the northeast rim of trie Topanga olaze in Kustie van yon and moved slowly toward the outer perimeter of the Bel Air fire. Only dry brush was m the immediate vicinity. fsficiajs.saidjf Rustic Caqyon, which has acted, as a buffer be tween the two fires, was consumed it would form a 12-mile solid fire front. Firemen said in both blazes 368 homes had been severely burned or destroyed. The fire area was darkened to-; day as ashes drifted over the area like snow. Twelve bombers were standing by to begin dropping fire-quenching chemicals at dawn. dates for further work on the hy-i pass have not been set by the highway department. The South Sixth-Shasta Way sec tion will divert traffic bound for downto' i Klamath Falls from overcrowded South Sixth Street to I less congested Alameda Street. Klamath County Engineer Jack Kalinoski said the new section will probably double traffic on Ala meda and increase the How on Shasta Way. The county road de-i partmcnt has paved the shoulders; of Alameda, making it a better; thoroughfare. County officials, while pleased with tiie bypass section, said it will create some problems. The county court has warned that both ends of the new section will be bottlenecks. The South Sixth-Sum mcrs Lane intersection is already crowded at peak hours and the Alameda-Shasta Way corner is lit tle better. The four-lane bypass section will funnel into two-lane streets, making traffic control dif ficult, the court said. The bypass section has been sur-i faced with a double thickness of; asphaltic concrete. Grading and rock surfacing cost $90,000 from the county road department budg-i et. The paving cost, $74,000, was shared on a 20-20-60 basis by county, state and federal govern ! ments under the federal aid sec-! ondary pnJgram. The section was; designed by the Slate Highway de partment. Zsa Zsa Loses Million In Fire NEW YORK LPii A weep ing Zfa Zsa Gabor said today she had lost a million dollars worth; of cherished possessions in tlw forest fire that razed her 1275,000 Bel Air, Calif., home. Before leaving for Los Angeles hy plane to survey the wreckage.: the film star received sympathy in her hotel suite. She said it was "just like a funeral" because "ev eryone loved my beautiful house so much. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER a, mil Flare Up At one point Tuesday 3,000 fire men, tons- of heavy equipment and low flying bombers dropping chemicals fought desperately to keep the two giant fires from joining. If that had happened the community of Pacific Palisades ;and the populated beach area might have been test, one spokes-; man said. Bui a dramatic shift of winds and spectacular successes by the cnemieai loauea combers pre- venvea mruier Holocaust. The . flames turned within about one mite of eaoh other. The Topanga Canyon eiaza was halt ed within a mile of the ocean. Residents of mare than 200 homes and students in Pacific; Palisades were removed. Hun-i dreds of Navy and Army fire fighters joined the massive Los Angeles County and city effort to prevent the fires from joining lorce. Gov. Edmund G. Brown de clared Los Angeles County a dis aster area. Atty. Gen. Stanley Mask recom mended that President Kennedy be asked to declare Los Angeles federal disaster area. But he said there was no need to ask the; state militia be activated to help: fight the blazes. Navy Plane 'Missing' BOSTON (APS A Navy bomber with a crew of H was reported missing today cn route from the carrier Lake Champlain, off Vir ginia, to its home base in Brans- wick, Maine. The Navy advised Coast Guard headquarters in Boston that She P2V bomber commonly used antisubmarine training was I reported at 7:40 am, EST. The Coast Guard said it was es timated that the plane's fuel sup ply would have been exhausted by 10 a.m. Coast Guard planes from Sa lem, .Mass., and Brooklyn, N.Y. were rushed into a search of! Cape Cod. Also ordered into the quest was the cutter Acushnet Another cutter, the Humboldt was dispatched from Boston. Good Tumour Expected At Conservation Meet Ail signs pointed today to one of! the best turnouts in years for the; opening here today of the 13th annual meeting of the Oregon As sociation of Soil Conservation Dis tricts. Lloyd Gift, Lorclla, local ar-; rangements chairman, said the aatherinz of farmer and ranch er conservationists would be large-; !y a fact-finding one, aimed at probing problems ot the land. But, he explained, there'll be fun and entertainment for delegates too. Wednesday noon, delegates lunched at the Henley Farm Ba rcau quarire-s while members of the OASCD Ladies Auxiliary dintd at the Ml. Laki Church. Tflfpho&f BemosPMce In MY, By TIIE ASSOCIATED PRESS Democrats have cajitured both: prizes as the two big elections. grinding out an upset by electing: the governor in New Jersey and easily winning the New York: mayoral race. Both elections Tuesday were in tently watched by politicians isfhs; regarded tliem ss important m gauging haw the political winds may oiow m issz ana ism. In New York, Robert F. Wag ner breezed past Republican Louis J. Lefkowitz and independ ent Lawrence E. Gcrasa to win his third term as mayor, as had been expected. Across use Hudson River, New Jersey voters overturned predic tions and elected Democrat Rich ard J. Hughes over Republican James P. Mitchell in the contest for eoveraar. Bath parties had wheeled ilieir; big guns into the New Jersey campaign. President Kennedy and former President Harry S. Tru man campaigned tor Hughes,; Former President Bwight D. El-; senhowcr campaigned for Mitch-: ell. Mitchell held out overnight but finally conceded defeat this morn ing when the count in all but H of the slate's election districts ihowcd him more than 40,000 be hind. At tisat point Use vote stood; Hughes 3,076.356, Mitchell 3,037,-: 113. . The White House reported Ken-: nedy was extremely pleased by; the outcome m beta New ork and New Jersey. In Gettysburg. Pa., a spokes man said Eisenhower planned to make tto comment on the New Jersey election. Virginia voters sasiawea trass tlon by Jiving Democrat Albertis S. Harrison Jr. ana use stale or-: ganization of O.S. Sen. Harry f. Byrd a one-sided victory over Republican H. Clyde Pearson the race for governor. In Kentucky, however, nepao- iicans cracked 28 years of Dem ocratic rule in Louisville by; sweeping into the mayor's office and other top posts. The WW also sewed up surrounding Jeffer son County for the first time in IS years. In Washington, . Republican Na tional Chairman William E. Mil Ex-Grldder Wins Race NEWPORT. Ky. (UPD Former; football slar George Ratterman, who swept lo victory as a reform icandidate for sheriff ia his first political race, was warned today; he wauld face more opposition in any effort fa drive organized gam bling out of northern Kentucky's Campbell County. Ratterman, running on a 'switch to honesty" ticket, won personal vindication by polling al-L most as many votes as his Desu-J ocratie and Republican opponents' combined, but four reform candi-i dates for Newport City Commis-i . sioner were defeated by so-called liberal" candidate. j I Came and quarterback Cleveland Browns drew nationwide alien! .campaign when he was arrested in a Newport hotel room las' May 9 with a strip tease dancer Juanita tApril Flowers) Dodges, At 3 p.m., the gathering was to leave from tlie Henley Farm Bureau Building to tour the grain potato and livestock producing areas of the Klamath Basin. A ladies hour is planned at ?:3flj p.m. in the ttiliard Hatei t Fuse! Grove Room. Thursday, at 2 p m., member of the auxiliary will be taken on a tour of the Air rorre base at Kingsley Field. At 4:15 pm., supervisors will take time out from discussions to enjoy cbeke tidbits, fruits and refreshments at the snack bar. annual feature of OASCD meet-! ings. Food for the bar is provided: by soB conservation districts over: the state. nt. ik.tM rv.n.A arH TU 4-Siii No. SSfii Mew Jerse ler called the Kentucky Victories a good smen for 3062" and a "victory of major preporttons." ; The mayoralty victor as Louis-! vilie was William O. Cowger, a mortgage broker.- He defeatt-d Democrat William S. Milimrn, president of She LouisviSe Board of Aldcrmcs. The lone U. S. Hossso seat at issue gave the Democrats another expected victory in strongly Dem ocratic Wayne County iDetroit! Mich, Democrat Lucien JJ. Sedzl ;defeaied Sepsiblican Walter Czar- neeki in a special election to fill a vacancy to the First District. The nation's attention was occu pied by the barometer races in Jvew York sua New Jersey, The chairman of Use Democrat ic National Committee, John M.; Bailey, said Wagner's victory: was a rebuff to New York Gov.: Nelson A, Rockefeller's "efforts: to use the New Y'ork mayoralty! HOUSTON, Tex. (API Two ships carrying oil and chemicals; CQiiided and burst into flames! Tuesday night in the Houston Ship' uvannei m tialvestots Say, A Coast Guard spokesman said two men were killed and IS oth ers injured. Eight men sttH were missing at mid-morning. Agents for the vessels indicated 98 persons were aboard when the ships eoUldea 35 miles southeast 2 Die As Ships Crash In Channel sf Houston. Use SO-jsiile-ksne wa- :terway-rsns between the Gtiff JniMexico and Houston. The bows of the JtS. Berean a 8,083-fen Norwegian tanker, and the 4-lost Union Reliance, a; list Chinese freighter. rammed each other. fise cause hsd not been determined. The: weather was clear. Coast Guard officials said both !of the dead were crewmen aboard the Union Reliance. Al) tire injured and missing also; were from tise Union Beiiatice, Tlie Berean, launched earlier ihis year, was bound far Houston. The Union Reliance had left Port Hauston six hours before Ihe col lision bound far New Orleans. The Berean earned five hours.; A skeleton crew then moved the jslssp tinder its own power to Boli-: var Roads near we part of Gal-: vesSon. Tlie Union Reliance was almost: Shooting Times November K OREGON S:20 a.m. 4:55 p,m, CALIFORNIA 6:16 a.m. 4:53 p.m. mm El If . j. -..lll. h A nn4t&v'.-t'mr.- "Vifelj jS TAKING SHAPE Th Klamath County Courthc-ut addition it beginning to talc hsp after three wtekt of construction work, Excavation has bean complatedj con crat looting have feaen peared and omm plumbing it installed, James S, Hickey !rsc, el fortland h ihe primary contractor on the hall-millsesvdollar eessnty prcjecf, A company spokesman said steei column wcuid fee erected this week in preparation for 4sS "lilt lafe" method el construction. The four-itory addition I feeing built be hind the pretent courthouse. Jt will be iimshea next jammer. Mt Shasta-Siskiyou Fair to- day; cloudy teoight and Thu day; cooler Thursday. Northern California Fair to day: cloudy in north tonight spreading ever area Tfaa-sday; showers likely on coast north of Kureka Thursday: cooler Thursday. $we campaign to advance his own p. r ssssaJ national ambitions assd a warning io him that he faces a hard fight for reelection as sey. ierssor," Bailey issued a second state ment today saying ih$ Democrat ic victory in New Jersey "is the third 3sar4 blow to the Bepub'i ean hopes of success ia the con gressional election of 1962." He said the first was the Demo cratic win in the special House election Saturday in Texas, and the second was Wagsser's victory in New Y'ork. JliBer also issued a secsssd statement, sayissf the net result of Tuesday's voting is that the Republicans scored significant gains In at least five states. He said the setback in New Jer sey fa of course a disappointment out isy no means a msjsr Mow io the Bepublicaa party' hopes in 39S2." destroyed by the fire, which was allowed to bars itself out Tlie Coast Guard said it -.vou'd start an Inquiry to determine the icaase of Use coaision. - Use tanker carried explosive chemicals, solvents and animal fats. Hiss freighter bad oil la bar rets on tier seek and lumber in the holds. Ghana Visit efi Given Oh LONDON f AP5-Prtoe Minister Macmiiian snBesmced today that Queen Elisabeth If and her bus- band Prince Philip will go to Ghana on their state visit as Prime Minister toM the House of Commons the gavera- saest "reached the cssieteion that the degree sf risk attached to this tour is no greater than tisat which has been present ta manv of her tthe aueen's) previous journeys." The spleen ana Philip will leave London Thursday on a nonstop 13,600-miJe flight to Accra. The visit is for 12 days. Duncan Sandys, Commonwealth relations secretary, recommended Is the Cabinet that the visit go off according to schedule. He re turned today from a personal ia-. speeUon of the security angles in Accra after a series of bomb blasts in Ghana's capital drama tized opposition there io President Kwame Nkrumaa. II II 96-n i 1 - ' s, -
