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Day's Sews
By FRANK JENKINS
From Salem:
Increases in the per capita in
come level in Oregon may cost
the stale up to $850,000 in federal
welfare funds over the next two
years. Public Welfare Administra
tor Andrew Juras said Friday. Ju
ras made the announcement at a
meeting of the State Public Wel
fare Commission here.
The announcement was not wel
come news to the Hatfield admin
istration. The proposed public wel
fare budget will have to be recom
puted to make up for the loss in
federal funds, Juras explained.
Personally, I think that is stat
ed wrongly.
What is happening is that in
comes in Oregon are RISING.
That is GOOD news, not BAD
news. What we should say is that
INCREASES in the income level
in Oregon may make it unneces
sary for our state to HAVE TO
ACCEPT $850,000 in federal wel
fare funds over the next two
years.
Let's look at the doughnut
not at the hole.
Consider this item from the Ore
gon Blue Bock:
Oregon's (present) motto is
"The Union."
"Alias Volat Propriis" (She
Flies with Her Own Wings' was
the Oregon territorial motto and
was generally accepted as the
stale motto for many years, but
was NEVER adopted by the slate
government.
"The Union" appears on the
slate seal and is accepted by most
authorities as the state motto, a!
though the law has never desig
nated it as such.
A suggestion:
Why not put on the ballot at
the next general election a meas
ure proposing that Oregon formal
ly adopts SHE FLIES WITH HER
OWN WINGS as the stale molto?
This w r i t e r has confidence
enough in the sturdy independence
of the REAL people of Oregon to
believe that such a measure would
be approved by an overwhelming
majority.
More Oregon census news
The Oregon Health Board said
this morning that Oregon has re
corded fewer births and more
deaths this vear than last year.
In a preliminary year-end re
port, the board said births, mar
riages and divorces have all
dropped, but deaths have In
creased about 2.6 per cent. There
were an estimated 10.872 mar
riages and 5.800 divorces in 19H2
a two to one ratio consistcnt'w ith
the past five years.
But-
Preliminary figuies put birthsj
at 37.406 and deaths at 17.273 a
favorable ratio of little belter
than TWO to ONE in the way of
births over deaths.
That ought to provide us with
about as much population increase
as we can lake care of adequate
ly in the years immediately
ahead.
A word of advice:
Oregon is ALL RIGHT.
Don't sell her short.
Flames Ravage
Medford Shops
MEDFORD a'Pli Flames
swept through four businesses in
the Marshall Bessonetle Building
here early Sunday morning.
The lire gutted the Big Y Clean
em. the Big Y Barber Shop, the
Laundromat, and Virginia's Beau
tv Salon.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR; Six-year. old Kristy Elem grins as
her titter Karen, 8. and brother Craig, 4, us their noise
mekers havinq their own New Year's En party a little
early. Karen duq into the closet and dressed herself end
the otht-r two in adult clo'hes complete to mekoup end
fancy hairdos. The youngsters, in Dalles, Tex., figured
they wouldn't be up to hail the new year in so celebrated
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Continent
LONDON (UPIi Britain's worst
winter storm in 15 years brought
the nation to a New Year's Eve
standstill today.
More snow was expected today,
although a slight thaw threatened
floods in some areas. Highway of
ficials, surveying drifts whipped
up by 88-mile-pcr-hour winds, pre
dicted, "It's going lo be a grim
New Year's Eve."
Snow, ice and winds struck the
rest of Europe, pushing the toll
in the eight-day freeze-up to 562
persons killed by auto accidents
drownings, asphyxiations and
and freezing.
France led with 175 deaths, fol
lowed by Britain with 148, Ger
many with 66, Italy with 57 and
Holland with 41.
For Britain, which spends most
of Hie year in mild if somewhat
disagreeable weather, the effect
of the 20-fool snow drifts and gale
force w inds was paralyzing.
Roads were only partially
cleared. Suburban trains ran skel
eton services at best.
London Airport was shut down
tight and the trustworthy South
ern Region Railway, which serv
ices the south suburban area of
London, collapsed completely Sun
day night for the first time in
years when drifts blocked main
routes.
Rail Union
Fights Move
The Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen will fight any effort
to reduce the size of crews on
trains in Oregon, Jerry Rulledge.
state legislative representative
for the union, said today.
The manager of the Oregon
Railroad Association. Luman G.
Miller of Portland, said earlier
his organization will ask the 19B3
Legislature to repeal a require
ment for a Ihird brakeman on
train crews. The requirement is
part of the stale's minimum crew
law.
Rutledgc said the need for the
1914 law is greater than ever.
"Trains are longer now than
they were then and they travel
at speeds up to three times as
fast." Rutlcdce said. "The public
safely demands a minimum num
ber of men to properly operate
and control a train, particularly
in the terrain typical of the slate
of Oregon."
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BANGOR. Maine (UPI'-A sur
prise blizzard, the worst of the
century in this section, trapped
thousands ol persons today in
northern Maine and New Hamp
shire. Snow was piled to the roof
tops. The snow, whipped to a face
cutting fury by winds up to 75
miles an hour, buried cars and
buses and sealed off scores of
communities.
Power was knocked out in
many areas. Hundreds of families
were w ithout heat for hours in 20-
below-zero temperatures. Snow
drifts were 20 feet high.
At least two deaths were attrib
uted to the storm, which caught
householders, motorists and ski
ers unprepared. The Weather Bu
reau had predicted one foot of
snow and flurries in some
areas before the blizzard hit.
There were at least 13 weather
related deaths in the East, includ-
mg two in the New England bliz
zard, six in Virginia and five in
Pennsylvania.
Most of the Northeast was
gripped by temperatures near
zero and raked by high w inds. Up
to eignt inches of new snow blan
keted northern Virginia.
Scattered snow fell Sunday
from Minnesota into the Great
Lakes, with locally heavy snow
falling in the "snow belt" on the
State Traffic
Kills Three
By I'nitcd Press International
Oregon's traffic death count for
the long New Year's holiday
weekend remained at three today.
The weekend began at h p.m.
Friday and ends at midnight
Tuesday. The three deaths were
recorded Saturday.
Leslie Peterson. 6. Kettle Falls.
Wash., was killed in a one - car
accident on U.S. Highway -TO5 six
miles south of John Day. The car
went olf the highway, overturned
several times and hit a tree.
Guy Day. 66. Eureka. Calif.
died when he was struck bv i
car on a highway near Lakeside
and Agda Johnson, 21, Portland
lost her life in a two-car, head-on
collision near Davton.
In addilion, a sailor from Ore
gon was killed in a one-car acci
dent north of South Hill. Va..
Sunday. The victim was Stanley
Crawford of Springfield.
Also killed in the accident on
an lev stretch of highway was
Ronald Philips. 21. New York
City, also a sailor. The men were
stationed aboard the L'SS Lexing
ton. Adair Gets
5 Projects
CORVALLIS lUPl'- Five con
struction projects costing $575.-
000 are planned at Adair Air
Force Station in 1063. Air Force
officials announced today.
An airmen's service ch.h. a civil
engineering warehouse and a civil
engineering administrative and
lorage bin ding are schedule" .m
completion bte iiexi year at a
cost of $330,000.
A $145,000 civil engineering
maintenance shop is expected lo
be finished next month and a
$100,000 equipment service and
storage building is in the planning
stage.
Air Crash
Claims 25
A.IACCIO. Corsica 'UPI' Res
cue teams reached the wreckage
of a French airliner in the bliz-
zard-swept Cnrsican mountains to
day and found no survivor?
among the 25 persons aboard.
Police reports from the crash
site said the smashed plane was
located atx.ut mid-day high on a
lope. Nine teams of foreign le
gionnaires, paratroopers and al
pine troops look part in the res
cue operation.
The craft crashed two days ago
It was earning 21 men and wom
en members of Corsiran basket
ball teams. 3 crewmen and a J-
ear-old boy.
lee sides of Lakes Erie and On
tario. The Midwest looked forward to
a warming trend today. A few
showers were on tap for the Pa
cific Northwest and occasional
light snow was predicted for the
northern Rockies and from Min
nesota through the lower Great
Lakes.
But the East was in for more
numbing cold.
Maine Gov. John H. Reed de
scribed the blizzard as "an emer
gency situation." Reed asked civil
defense aid for stricken families.
Myer Minsky, who has lived 60
of his 76 years in Bangor, said
"I don't remember anything this
bad."
Roads disappeared in snow
Thousands of cars were left aban
tloned. Wires and trees were
blown down. Scores of highway
accidents were reported.
Maine state police at Orono
said at least 2.000 persons were
stranded in a 50-mile area around
Bangor. About 100 persons left
their cars and took refuge in Pi
lot's Grille, a restaurant, in Ban
gor.
Once at the restaurant, police
ordered them to stay there for
their own safety.
A section of Bangor, a city of
40.000, was without electricity. In
Bangor and elsewhere, the snow
was g u 1 1 e r-high around low
pitched-roof houses. Many fam
ilies left their homes and moved
in with relatives or neighbors
who had heal.
The Bangor Daily News did not
publish today for the first lime
in its 125-year history. Managing
editor John W. Moran said, "We
could have put out a newspaper
but we couldn't have dispatched
it.
Men and machines were mobi
lized to battle the snow. But even
gigantic "snowplows were turned
back by towering drifts.
Red China
Raps Russia
TOKYO iHPIl Communist
China today made its strongest
public defense of its "hard line"
policy in the most open challenge
yet to Soviet leadership of inter
national communism.
A 20.000-word editorial in the of
ficial Peking People's Daily ac
cused Soviet Premier Nikila S.
Khrushchev and other Communist
critics of China as being "timid
as mice" when the American
paper tiger" bares its "nuclear
teeth."
It defended the theory that war
is necessary, described hhrush-,
chev's peaceful coexistence as
absurd" and said the Soviet
backdown in Cuba "can only be
regarded as 100 per cent appease
ment, a 'Munich pure and sim
ple." The reference to Khrushchev
and the Soviet Union was indirect
hut unmistakable.
Nikita Makes Appeal
To A void Nuclear War
MOSCOW (L'PI-Soviet Pre
mier Nikita S. Khrushchev pp.
pealed today for compromises as
the only alternative to nuclear
war lo settle East-West problems.
Citing the agreements reached
m the Cuban crisis, the Commu
nist leader said the same "con-
crssion for concession" principle
hnuld be implemented in 1363 In
efforts lo solve such knotty issues
as Berlin and disarmament.
"The other alternatie which
is thermonuclear war must be
ruled out," the premier said.
Khrushchev made his stale
menls in an interview with the
1-nndon Daily Expres. released by
the official Tass news agency.
The interview, in question and
answer form, comprised a mes
sace for the new year.
Tlie. premier renewed his offer
to stop Soviet nuclear testing, be
ginning Tuesday, if the West will
do the same. But he made no new
offer on the control issue He also
repeated his proposal to have
I'nited Nations troops replace,
Western garrisons in West BerlinlCuba?"
COUP.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
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KATANGA CAPTURED United Nation ttoops cap
tured the strategic Katangese village of Kamina shortly
after other UN forces swept southward through the re
bellious province and captured Elisa betfjville. driving
Katanga President Moise Tshombe into exile in neighbor
ing Northern Rhodesia. He has promised to return and
lead his forces in another "Algeria." UPI Telephoto
Castro Sets
For Relatives Release
HAVANA (UPH-The chances
of more relatives of the released
Bay of Pigs invaders going to the
United States in the immediate
future were dimmed today by
new price set by Premier Fidel
Castro.
Castro issued a statement Sun
day demanding that Pan Ameri
can World Airways resume sched
uled airline service to Cuba be
fore he would permit further de
partures from Cuba.
In Miami, a spokesman or Pan
American said the airline has no
immediate plans to resume regu
lar flights lo Havana.
Pan Am is unwilling to operate
anywhere in the world where un
certainty leading lo hazards ex
ists." he said.
Tlie statement issued by Cas
tro's office said prospective exiles'
One Survives
Of Quadruplets
PHILADELPHIA UPU - A
tiny boy. the only surviving quad
ruplet, fought for life today in
an incubator at Jefferson Medical
College Hospital.
Two brothers and a sister of
Baby B died Sunday night a lit
tle more than eight hours after the
quadruplets were born to Mrs.
Vivian Spcctor, 23. They were 11
weeks premature.
Baby B, who weighs about 15
pounds, was listed in critical con
dition, which is normal procedure
in a premature birth. But doctors
said the first 24 hours would be
the most critical for him.
as a compromise solution lo the
Berlin crisis.
Calling for an improvement of
relations between the Soviet Un
ion and the United Slalns, Khrush
chev said the lime of one slate
'dominating" other stales has
gone for good.
Khrushchev sain he is con
vinced the Cuban crisis will leave
a deep imprint in international
relations.
"This was a moment wh .. jic
sinister shadow of nuclear war
raced over the world," he said.
"People started looking at ques
tions of war and peace in a new
way."
He said the crisis posed before
nations in an acute form the cru
cial question of whether there is
to be peaceful coexistence of the
slates wilh different social sys
tems. "Or is tlie world to he plunged
into the abyss of war as the result
of insane attempts lo impose the
will of a handful of monopolies
upon freedom-loving though small
nations
in this case, heroic
MONDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1962
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can leave the country "whenever
they want to once flights to
Havana are resumed."
The statement apparently was
designed as a denial of a state
ment attributed to James B. Don
ovan, the New York lawver who
negotiated the release of the 1,113
Bay of Pigs invasion prisoners inl
exchange for medicine-and food'
stuffs.
Donovan was quoted as telling
a press conference in Lake Placid
N.Y., Saturday lhat Castro had
assured him up. to 3.50O persons,
could leave Cuba aboard the Red
Cross ships carrying the balance
of the exchange supplies to Cuba
Castro s statement also denied
reports that the premier might
visit the United Nations to ini
tiate negotiations for the release
of the 23 Americans imprisoned
in Cuba.
Nearly 1.000 relatives of pris-i
oners went by ship last week
lo join Die released invaders in
Florida before the Castro govern
ment banned further departures.
Police Press
Child Hunt
PORTLAND (UPH-Multnomah
County detectives were checking
several leads today in the search
for six-year-old Mona Rae Min
yard, missing since noon Saturday
from her home cast of here.
A search of the area around the
girl's home was abandoned Sun
day and county detective Walter
Graven said, "At tlie present
lime, it doesn't look good for Die
little girl."
The blonde, bluu-eyed child loltl
her home to buy some groceries
for her molher. She said she was
going to slop at the home of a
friend on her way to the store
She never reached either place.
Police lirst tluiught she had
made purchases at the market,
hut later investigation indicated
the sales had been made to an
other girl. One witness reported
seeing the girl and her dog at the
store, but her parents said the
dog never left the house.
A search parly of about 40 per
sons, including 25 Sea Scouts,
searched the area around the
girl's home without finding a
clue. The girl's father, Robert
Gene Minyard of Sandy, and her
stcptather. Samuel Lane, were
among the searchers.
The missing child is about
three-feel, nine-inches tall and
weighs 55 pounds. Slie was wear
ing a hlue and-whitc check dress,
gray coat, blue scarf, black shoes!
and white socks.
t'RC.F.S CIIANGKS
MOSCOW (UPI i - The Soviet
Trades Union Council has urged
its members In implement
changes in industrial and agri
cultural manaeement called f n r
by Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev,
according to the official ncwi g
ency Tass.
Telephone
LEOPOLDV1LLE. The Congo
i UPI i Fighting erupted between
United Nations and Katangese
troops near Kamina today and
Katanga President Moise Tshom
be was reported heading back to
lead his embattled forces.
Swedish and Ghanaian U. N.
soldiers moved out from the big
Kamina airbase 250 miles north
west of Elisabelhville as part of
an operation that began Christ
mas Eve.
The Swedish Defense Ministry
in Stockholm said it had receivedl
eports of "heavy" fighting. It
laid the U. N. ground forces were
supported by Swedish jet fighters.
The Swedish rcporls said one
force of Swedish and Ghanaian
soldiers set out for Kamina,
other seized the village of Mitob-1
we and the railroad station and
Lukoka and a third took up posi
tions at three bridges six miles
south of the airbase.
Vows to Resist
A dispatch from Salisbury,
Southern Rhodesia, said Tshombe
left there this morning to return
to somewhere in Kntanga.
He told newsmen in Salisbury
Sunday he would return and
lead resistance until the very
end." He fled Elisabethville when
U. N. forces took it over during
the weekend. i
U. N. planes operating mainly
from Kamina have all but de
stroyed the small Katangese air
force, catching most of its planes
on the ground. The U. N. com
mand ordered the Katangese to
turn over the rest of their planes
Milk Meet
Scheduled
SALEM UPI An emergency
meeting of dairy producers from
throughout Oregon has been
scheduled here Thursday morning,
State Sen. Arthur Ireland, R-For-
est Grove, revealed today.
Ireland told United Press Inter
national "i export up -to 300 pro
ducers from every part of the
state will attend."
Ireland said producer groups,
concerned over possible milk
price drops when tlie present milk
stabilization law expires at mid
night tonight, asked him to ar
range a meeting place.
Sen. Ireland, vice chairman of
tlie Legislative Interim Committee
on Agricullurc, said the meeting
was not called by the interim
committee.
He said pioducer groups asked
him to arrange for a meeting
place in Salem.
The meeting was called so hasti
ly there was confusion over where
the session would be held.
Genevieve C. Morgan, head In
formation officer of the Stale De
partment of Agricullurc. said sjic
had reserved the agriculture con
ference room at the request of
Sen. Ireland. I
Ireland, however, said he un
derstood the meeting would be
held In room 6 of the Capitol
Building.
The session apparently was
scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
Kenneth Sawyer, chief of the
milk audit and stabilization divi
sion, lold UPI he understood the
agriculture conference room had
been reserved, "but it will only
scat about 50."
Sawyer said this morning nol
other milk price reduction notices
had b-en filed with his office.
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A TRAGIC PRAnK Mrs. Walter Blessinge, 2 1 05 Ohio, returned home after
holiday visit to find that someone had turned on the sprinkler system at her horn and
that the frigid weather had froien shrubs and trees and laden them with a heavy
coat nf ice that broke branches and destroyed shrubs. Sha is shown her In front of
her home amid the ice-covered scene.
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by Tuesday under a guarantee of i
safe passage.
Elisabelhville itself was quiet
today and U. N. forces, fanning
out through other sections of Ka
tanga, were reported meeting Ut
ile or no resistance.
Despite Tslumbe's warlike
words, U. N. Secretary General
Thant sent word from New York
Uiat no action was to be taken
against the Katangese president
if he returned to Elisabethville.
Thant sent warm congratula
tions for. the fast action that gave
MOISE TSHOMBE
. . . driven out
Bus Plunges
Into River
ST. REGIS. Mont. (UPD-The
sheriff's office at Superior, Mont.,
said this morning that at least six
persons were killed when a Grey
hound bus collided with a tmck
and plunged into the St. Regis
River four miles west of here.
A numfcor of persons were in
jured.
The accident occurred on U. S.
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Highway 10. Three ambulances'
were sent to the scene of the ac
cident from Missoula, about
miles southeast of St. Regis,
Richard . Brown, 40, - Clifton,
Ore., one of the survivor! of
the
bus-truck crash, (aid the 43-pas-
sengcr bus was full when
plunged into the St. Regis River.
Brown, brought here by a pass
ing motorist for treatment, sain
the entire front end of the bus
was submerged in the cold water.
He estimated that the vehicle
plunged nearly 100 feet from U.S.
Highway 10 to the river. He said
he was riding in the front seat of i
he bus and it appeared the east-
bound vehicle clipped ths trailer.
of a westbound grain truck.
"People were screaming and
yelling." Brown said. "I got out
somehow and dragged myself up
he bank."
It Was Bound To Happen!
MELROSE, N.M. (UPI) - An
eagle swooped down on a Volks-!
wagen Saturday, burst through
(lie windshield Saturday, and at
tacked the two rabbit hunters
nsidc.
Tlie hunlers. Jim McNeil, 23.
of Clovis, N. M and Kent Flem-
ns, 23, of Mountainair, N. M.J
said the eagle clawed them so
badly they had to go to a doctor.
They killed the eagle with a 22-
calibcr rifle. The bird had a wing-
span of six feet, they said, and it
look several shots to dispatch it.
McNeil said he and Flemins.l
a. ,
Weallier
Klamath Falls, Tulelake IP.
Lakeview Mostly fair tonight
and Tuesday with patchy Jog
late tonight and early Tuesday
morning. Low tonight 17 lower
Klamath Basin to 22 Klamath
Falls and Lakeview. High Tues
day 44. Light variable winds.
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U.N. troops control over key po
sitions of the breakaway province
after 43 hours of sharp fighting.
Seeks Total Victory
Robert Gardiner, the U.N. civil
ian chief in the Congo, made it
plain that the action would stop
at nothing short of total pacifica
tion of the copper-rich province
and its integration into (Ije rest
of the Congo.
Tshombe's forces, reduced to a
rabble by the U.N. onslaught, ap
peared to have lost the will to
fight. They were reporled drop
ping their weapons and fleeing
into the bush.
But Tshombe, who fled to Salis
bury, Southern Rhodesia, where
he has a sympathetic friend in
Central African Federation Pre
mier Sir Roy Welcnsky, said he
would return to "a point in Ka
tanga" today to lead counter-action.
"In Algeria the war lasted sev
en years, Tshombe told news
men in Salisbury. "Ours might
last longer."
Occupy Capital
U.N. troops occupied Elisabeth
ville over the weekend, took con
trol of territory around the city
and then swept southward to
seize the strategic border town of
Kipuski and the village of Ka
mina. U.N, spokesmen said there was
little or no resistance.
U.N. jet fighters destroyed at
least S Katangese planes In 17 air
strikes since the battle begun
Christmas Eve.
Milk Price
War Mixed
PENDLETON (UPD-Possibili-
ty of a milk price war in the
Pendleton area has been discount
ed by representatives of two dis
tributors here.
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Oregon's temporary milk price
stabilization law expires at mid
night tonight and at least one Wil
lamette Valley dairy has indicated
it will cut its prices.
Tony Sundin of Independent
Dairies said producers in the Pen
dleton area could not withstand a
price reduction. There is little
profit on milk now, he said.
Mayfloww Co. representative
Ned Van Campen said he did not
anticipate any drop in prices.
Milk distributed by Twin City
Creamery of Kennewick, IVash.,
has begun appearing in stores
here, but it has been selling at
the same price as domestic
brands.
The Oregon Dairymen's Associ
ation is scheduled to meet in Sa
lem Jan. 7 to discuss a possible
new law.
lus brother-in-law, were heading
into rabbit country on a state road
about 10 miles north of Melrose
when the big eagle rose from the
ground near the highway and flew
directly at the small car. McNeil
said they were traveling at about
45 miles an hour, and the eagle
shattered the windshield.
Apparently little hurt, the eagle
set upon both men with its claws
and beak. McNeil said he managed
to stop the car without accident,
and he and Flemins scrambled out
and away from tlie furious bird,
which they then shot.
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