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Day's Sews U.OP OSB.LIBRARt MSilSPAPER SSCTXOS QEtt.R8FAX0 MCVKCXTS DI. COIP. Wenllier By FRANK JENKINS Big queslion in the news: What about Cuba? And . . . especially ... what! about the Cuban people? Are they happy with commu-j nism? Do they regard it as the! answer to their prayers during the nearly 400 years when they have yearned for liberty but haven't had much of it? And what of Castro? Do they regard him as the sa vior they have longed for? For a possible answer to these questions, let's turn today to a neutral reporter a Turk, Goskin Sipahioglu. a free lance writer! from Istanbul, who was in Ha-! vana throughout the whole Soviet American missile crisis. Interviewed in New York yes terday, he said the w hole island is "seething with sullen anger against Fidel Castro and the Com munist party." He added: "I am sure that at least 90 per cent of the Cuban people are AGAINST the communists, and against Cas tro. too. fcven the lowly campesinos! (peasants) who have been an im portant source of support for the1 revolution are angrily, although passively, resisting the communists." He says he was told by Cubansj that probably 9,000 Cuban peas- ants have been sent to prisons for refusing to work in the fields. They refused to work because, even K they were paid, there was nothing they could buy with their pesos. Their anger is all the greater, he says, "because they feel Cas tro broke his promises to give them THEIR OWN lands but in stead nationalized the land after the Soviet pattern." That raises this highly import-! ant question: WHAT WILL WE DO if and! when the Cubans rise in rebel lion? We ought to be doing some thinking about that. We need to know our ow n minds and our own purposes so that we will be ready to act decisively if the Cuban people, sick and weary of com munists and communism, should RISE AGAINST CASTRO again laying their lives on the line in a desperate move to get rid of him. We mustn't have another Bay of. Pigs fiasco. Weather note: Winter gales swept Western Eu rope and the North Atlantic yes- terday, sinking a German vessel with a loss of at least 17 lives. Inland, huge trees were uprooted, roofs were wrenched from houses and cars were blown off roads by winds of from 50 to 65 miles per hour. Gusts of more than 115 miles an hour were reported. Blizzards and floods struck France and heavy snow fell else where. Six persons were killed bv the storm in Britain. High tides and crashing seas threat ened the dikes of Southern Hol land. And so on. Them bombs, maybe? H19I1 Sunday tw Usl mht High vr q Low ytr I go High put t4 ytari Low Mil H ytort Procin. put U hwre Siwct Jm. I Sam parted last ytar Sbarii Tuasday Sunsft TuaMay KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON", MONDAY, DECEMBER IT, I96J 4: ..IB. W V Price Tea Cents SO Pages r j fr & ttLv .-- I :M Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelaie and Lakeview: Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with periods of light rain. Variable triads 5-IS m.o.h. Slightly cooler tonight; loir 34. High Tuesday 44. Telephone TU 4-MU No. 701J NATIONAL TREE LIGHTED Lights on the national Christmas tree were to be turned on late today by President Kennedy. This view was taken during a Sunday night test. The tree, largest one in background, is located on the ellipse across from the White House. Smaller trees represent the states of the Union. In background is Washington Monument. -UPT Tele photo a Prisoner Talks Resume As Donovan Flies To Cuba By MARTIN McREYNOLDS United Press International James B. Donovan, chief nego tiator for the release of the 1,113 prisoners captured during the Bay of Pigs invasion, left New York suddenly Sunday night for Cuba to try to complete final arrange ments for the captives' release before Christmas. Donovan was accompanied by Alvaro Sanchez Jr., national chair- Meredith Files Claim At Police OCE Committee Blasts Budget SALEM (UPU Hie Oregon Col lege of Education student legisla tive information committee said today the proposed biennial budg et for higher education is inade quate to "support quality educa tion in Oregon." OXFORD, Miss. (UPD-Jamcs Meredith returned to classes to day following a weekend at home where he charged police trailed him and treated him "like a dog" when they arrested him on a traf fic charge. "They cursed me, called me a nigger," ordered me to say 'sir' to them and searched my car," the 29-year-old Negro student said. Meredith said the incident hap pened in his hometown of Kosciu sko. Miss., where he went to spend the weekend with his family. He said a police car began fol lowing him when he left a bar bershop and stopped him a short; distance from his home. He was charged with failing to yield the right-of-way and posted $10 bond. At Kosciusko, Policeman Claude Guess confirmed today that Mere dith was ticketed on the charge but said, "He was not followed around. All that's just a yarn to get publicity." Guess said that Meredith was stopped by two night policemen who "were just on patrol." He denied that Meredith was treated in the manner which he charged. Trial on the charge is scheduled for city court Wednesday and Meredith has indicated he will fight the charges rather than for feit the fine. man of the Cuban Families Com mittee for the Liberation of Pris oners of War, and Mrs. Berta Bar- reto, committee co-ordinator in Havana. The three were reported in Mi ami waiting final word of an ap pointment with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. A committee spokesman said Donovan received a phone call instructing him to leave for Cuba Sunday night. We are very hopeful this whole situation can be cleared up in the next few days," a committee spokesman said. "We're back in a cliff hanging situation." In Washington, a State Depart ment official said Donovan's pass- port has been validated for a trip! to Cuba. Donovan, a key figure In the efforts to raise $62 million worth of medicine, food and other sup plies which Castro has demanded as "fines for the prisoners, said Sunday in New York he could not comment on the status of the ne gotiations "for the time being." A spokesman for the American Red Cross said the Farrell Lines freighter African Pilot was standing by in Baltimore harbor to carry supplies to Cuba for the barter "when and if needed." A Farrell Lines spokesman in dicated the ship would sail today but declined to give its destina tion. A call went out for a sail ing crew to report. The Baltimore Sun said the ship tentatively was scheduled to sail for Miami today to pick up $13 million worth of medicines and food and then sail to Havana. It said the prisoners would be flown back. In Havana, a usualty reliable informant said the deal was near completion, with only details re maining, such as which prisoners will be released first and how the exchange will be coordinated Rode; scape Quickly Recaptured .1 SAN FRANCISCO HP1 - The myth of "invincible Alcatrai," tar nished six months ago when three inmates disappeared from the is land prison in San Francisco Bay, was shattered a second time Sunday night when two convicts escaped from "The Rock." Both men were captured in a matter of hours.. John Paul Scott, 35, a Ken lucky bank robber, floated and swam three mites through the churning, rain-swept bay and land ed on a rock under the Golden Gate Bridge. Scott and another bank robber, D. Lee Parker of Canton, Ohio, escaped from "The Rock" around 5:47 p.m. PST, when their ab sence was discovered. Found at Fort Point Parker was captured 28 min utes later as he shivered on a rock outcropping known as "Lit tle Alcatraz," only 100 yards off the main island. But Scott, using a makeshift set of water wings including an inflated shirt and several pairs of surgical gloves, made it to Fort Point, a Civil War fortress direct ly under the bridge on the San Francisco side. He was seen there by two un identified teen-age boys who called the military police at the Presidio of San Francisco. A team of MP's and firemen captured the shivering, speechless convict at about 7:30 p.m. A spokesman at Lelterman Army Hospital, where! he was treated for exposure, said he had been in the water at least an hour and a half. It was the first instance of a convict actually negotiating the cold, fast-moving bay and reach ing shore in the 28 years Alca traz has been a federal civilian prison. Wish I Made If On June II, three bank robbers from the- South Frank Morris, John Anglin and his brother Clar encedisappeared off the north cast edge of Alcatraz and have not been seen or heard from since. The FBI and federal prison au- Four Killed In Weekend StateTraffic Tax Chairman Predicts 1963 Economic Growth SALEM 1 UPU A modest I growth of from one to two per growth in Oregon's economy dur- cent next year, and about five ing 1963, and a more rapid pickup in 1964, was forecast today by Oregon Tax Commission Chair man Charles H. Mack. Mack made the forecast as the three-day legislative fiscal orienta tion conference got under way here. Members of the 1963 Lcgislaturej gathered here for a comprchen-1 sive briefing of proposed revenue and expenditure programs for the 1963-65 biennium. Sen. Alfred H. Corbett, D-Port-land, opened the meeting. He is chairman of the Legislative riscal Committee. Mack said "in looking at the prospects for Oregon in 1963 we are forced to conclude that there is no evidence in sight of any unusual gain." He predicted an economic "fx vV.II,'. priest K-lff'-r K'Ufi V.-:- EiS 'js Senegalese Troops Call Revolution fi . .1 - j 4" f . V - r per cent during 1964. He said if the growth next year is larger than expected, a smaller upswing would take place in 1964. For the period beyond 1964, Mack predicted Oregon's economy will at least be able to keep up with the national pattern. He said "our gain in 1963 will come from economic activities other than lumber and wood prod ucts and agriculture. "We expect gains to be recorded in wages paid by most other kinds of manufacturers, service enter prises, trade businesses and gov ernments. Many non-wage types of per-1 sonal income will also increase," he said. In reviewing business during this year. Mack pointed out "con sumer spending has not come up to expectations. He said there were reports that Oregon's personal income in creased B.2 per cent through Sep tember of this year. He explained this is a larger gain than in Cali fornia or Washington, and was well above the national average of 6.3 per cent. "This year, by the usual indica tors, is a better year than 1961 but is not as good as the council of economic advisers anticipated last January," he said. In sessions scheduled this after noon. Gov. Mark Hatfield's oper ating budget for 1963-65 was to be! reviewed. By United Press International Four persons lost their lives in Oregon traffic accidents during the weekend. Burncll Ernest Obcr 34, Port-! land, died shortly before midnight 1 when his pickup truck overturned cast of the Portland city limits, i He was pronounced dead on ar rival at Gresham General Hospi- tal. ' Kenneth Queahpama, 23, of! Warm Springs, was killed Sundav w hen he was hit by a car on U.S. Highway 26 two miles southeast of Warm Springs. He was struck by a car driven by Wynema Squimpen, 20, Warm Srpuigs. A 17-ycar-old girl was killed in a one-car accident on the Colum bia River Scenic Highway V,i miles east of Bridal VciL Satur day. She was Donna Lee Oney, a senior at Marshall High School The driver of the vehicle, Law rence Cordano, 18 Portland was arrested by Multnomah County sheriffs deputies and charged with negligent homicide. His car skidded oil the road and over a1 12-fool embankment. Demi! Hoover, 52, Taft, was fa-! tally injured Friday night when! his pickup truck collided with a car on U.S. Highway 30 near Rooster Rock State Park. In addition. Louis Parker, 48, Hood River, died in a Washington! hospital Sunday of injuries suiter-1 ed Oct. 9 when the car in which he was riding failed to negotiate a curve and rolled over 15 miles north ol Oiondo, Wash. DAKAR, Senegal (UP11 Troops of the Senegalese National Gen darmerie took over the Parlia ment Building today and forcibly ejected all legislators from the! building. The troops surrounded the build ing and burst into the conference room as debate was about to start on a censure motion against the government of rrcmier Mah- madou Dia. Their move prevent ed action on the censure motion. Except for one opposition mem ber, alt the parliamentary depu ties at the meeting were membrs of the ruling Senegalcs Progres sive Union party, 1 When ordered to leave the build-1 ing, they refused and were eject-! ed by the troops. (Reports reaehtni Parfa said the gendarmes, who cordoned off streets leading, to-the Parliament Building, arrested at least four deputies, Including a former In dustry minister. They said Presi dent Leopold Sfnghor, a political opponent of Premier Dia, had called in the commander of the elite Senegalese parachute regi ments for consultation. (A French radio report said two units of gendarmes backing the government had taken up posi tions in front of the Senegalese ra- dio building and Dia's residence. The report said official censor ship also was Imposed in Dakar this afternoon on orders of the premier. (In Parts, French telephone 01- ficials said all telephone commu nications with Senegal had been cut.) The Senegalese Progressive Union, the governing party to which 79 of the 89 National As sembly deputies belong, prepared , a motion last Friday protesting against provisions of a state of emergency and demanding resig- nation of Dia. The motion was signed by 40 deputies. In accordance with con stitutional rules. National Assem bly President Lamine Gucye had suspended the session until today. thorities presume they drowned, but their bodies have not been recovered. Laie Sunday night Scott was transferred from the hospital to a Coast Guard launch which re turned him to Alcatraz, about six hours after he left it. I wish I could have made it,' Scott yelled to reporters as he was loaded onto the launch. Federal authorities declined to speculate on how Scott and Park er got out of their cells. The only clue came from a doctor who treated Scott. He said the convict disclosed he had used cleanser to smooth the bars, but would not say whether he sawed through them and it so, what implement he used. A prison spokesman said there was some indication the two men escaped from the basement of their eating unit through a window. Parker is serving a 50-year term for bank robbery, attempted escape and kidnaping. Scott was sentenced to 30 years for bank robbery and possession of unrcg-i istered firearms. Alcatraz has been . ordered "phased out" by the Justice De partment, with the closing date scheduled lor some time in the next three years. The order came' after the June escape, when the three convicts burrowed out of their cells with sharpened kitchen spoons. Europeans Hit Heavily By Weather x y yJ m T-Vvf-" - .( s I 1 SANTA'S HELPERS Brownie Troop No. 87 at Fergu son School has made scads of yarn toys for the Christmas Clearing Bureau Store where parents may go and choose gifts for families on a point system. The girls ere third graders. Mrs. Billie Soldert end Dortefda Devore ere co- leaders. Representing the busy troop for the picture, seated, left, ere Vicki Eklund end Pamete Swanson, Standing, left, are Jean Johnson, and right, Cindy Allen. Solon Threatens Missile Revenge Macmiilan Off To Meet Raaf Named For Rhodes LONDON (tPtl Whiter floods, snows and winds up to It7i miles an hour caused heavy dam age and loss of life to parts of Britain and the European consi lient Sunday. Weather forecasters predicted, more of the same today for the southeast coast of England, The hurricane-force winds which! whipped across Great Britain Sunday, caused at least $2.8 mil lion damage. At least 43 persons were be lieved kilted. Twenty-three crew members of the German freighter Nautilus were dead or missing after the ship sank off the Dutch coast early Sunday. Another 10 persons died in Bnt-j am in car accidents or when chimneys and roofs collapsed. Ten more were kitted in Bavaria, where snow and ice turned roads into paths of death. Weather forecasters predtctedi moderating winds today, except! on the south-east coast of Eng land, where more gales were ex pected to whip the English Chan net to flood tide. ' The winds ripped up trees, smashed road signs to the grounds, twisted television aerials and toppled chimneys and wtills. WASHINGTON (UP!) - The ad. ministration was threatened todayi with the possibility of congres sional retaliation if it scraps the Skybolt missile. Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo. said Sunday that unless araa- mcnt for cancelling the Skybotl program were truly convincing this would affect many - other programs that the aarmnisimsoa! nugni iu u tw g tnrougn urn gressi" ' - 'j Symington obviously did not think the administration could justify killing Skybolt. He said that h the Skybolt wasi 'discarded he could not see future for the Air Force." He noted that the Russians have de veloped anti-aircraft missiles that are able to snoot down fwrnoersi before they reach their targets. The Skybolt is an arr-to-grotmdi missile. It is fired from a plane, as far as 1,000 miles from target. The warning by Symington, one of Congress' most influential mil itary specialists, added a second! front to the Skybolt controversy. British officials have reactedi sharply to reports that the United Sta!vs will abandon the missile which is being developed jointly iv both countries. Britain has counted on the missile to be the j backbone of its nuclear strike force. The issue is expected to bci among the chief topics discussedi by President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmman wnen they meet in Nassau Wednesday and Thursday. The official U.S. position on Sky- holt is that no decision has yet been reached on its future. U.S. military expert contend the pro gram has been costly and has not yet produced worthwhile results, Kennedy said at his news con ference last Wednesday that the Skybolt missile was "the most so ated weapon imaginable and involved "the kind of engi neering that's beyond us." But ha acknowledged that the British had a right to take part in any de cision that is made about the mis sile' & Suture. Vote Count Test Studied ST, HELENS CUFII- Coiumbfa County Sheriff Spencer Yoance said today that "no decision" has been made on whether an appeal will be made of a ruling which wilt cost him his job. Circuit Judges J. S. Bohannan and Gten Hieher ruled here Fri day that Republican Roy S. Wil burn defeated Younce, a Demo crat, for the sheriff'j office in the genera election last month. i have not discussed the ruling vet with my attorneys," Younee said. "We plan to get to gether either this week or next week." The judges declared that a re count of votes ia the sheriff race was void. They agreed with charg- by Wilburn that the ballots were tampered with between the count after the Nov. 8 election and the recount Nov. 26. Younce came out the winner of the election in the recount by 4t votes. He lost by 100 votes in the first count, -which waa 4,273 to ,173. n $42 800 BID ON TIMBER The 17th sale of timber blown down in the Winema For est during tha Columbm Day storm was held Friday when the Klamath Lumber and Box Company entered h hiah bid of $42,800 for 2.3 million board feet of fallen logi on Fuego Mountain, north of Sprague River. Norman Gould, right, of the Winema Forest, awards fh timber lalei conlracf to Henry Kerr and Charles Glidden, repra sentati'ves of the company. At of the Friday ale, 6.8 million board feet of the limber knocked down during th storm hat been sold. Ex-KUHS Coach Leaves Service CHICAGO ifPI - Filth Army Headquarters announced today liiat Col. Arthur W. Gustafson, Fifth Army special services olli er will retire Dec. 31 and will become e.-.ecutive director of the LONDON lUPD Prime Min ister Harold Macmiilan flew to day to meet President Kennedy in the Bahamas, expressing con fidence that the Skybolt missile issue, which has created the worst Anglo-American rift since the Suez crisis, could be settled. "1 have no doubt we shall find a way through our difficulties in a spirit of agreement we shall al wavs have with the American peo ple and administration," he said PORTLAND H'PD-A Harvard in an airport statement University biochemistry student from Portland was selected as a Rhodes scholar in regional schol arship competition here Saturday. Macmiilan said the little sum mit conference was necessaryi now "to make a new assessment' nf the East-Wet position in the t..fc. f ... r .., Cuban attermam. M mis moment aiit-'i v.u seniors picked It nominees from from seven college amoni; talcs. The three olher winners were Sam Wcsthrook. a sludrnt at the Air Force Academy ; ,Iamc Quits- lund. also a Harvard student, and Chicago United Service organiza-j,,' Kcrr s(u(icnl a(' (hc linn Custafsm headed the athletic departments at Klamath Falls and Milton-Frecwater High Schools m Oregon, end Whitworlh College. Spokane. Wash , prior to joining the army in April. 1911. He was jraduatcd tiom Oregon State Col lege in 1933. we have to try to make a new assessment so far as we can of the portion between East and West." Macmiilan said. "Can the tioition he turned to our advan tage? Is there a chance of get ting ahead with wme of these University of Washington. mtn, sn(J olhcr matte,-s? Might Each will receive a two or la ! lead to a broader agree three-year scholarship at Oxford mcnt between the two great blocs University in England, The nominees represented Ore gon, Washington, tdoho, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and Alaska. of power." The prime minister said a West ern course also must he deter mined In light of "the great event! which have taken place in Asia. Jm; r iT3 ' f ;,) K 't i -: Ai I PUTS STATE OVER TOP Mrs, Nancy Smith of fhe San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, leff, presents oranaei o Mn, Paul R. Crawford of New York tat and her daughter Robin, I, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford were honored af the desert cheeking ifationt Daggaff at fha family believed to hava boosted California to the No. 1 itare in fha nation in population. Daughter Barbara, 4, doesn't tam very awd by fha honor, however. W T!phot
