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By FRANK JENKINS
Notes in the news on this morn
ing after the Big Day and the
night before the Big Day:
San Francisco nursed a muni
cipal hangover yesterday follow
ing one of the rowdiest New
Year's Eve celebrations in years.
"The trend of the times is out
right defiance of authority," said
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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2, 1963
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Police Chief Thomas Cahill, "and
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that's what we had Monday
night."
Chief Cahill said it was the
roughest New Year's Eve in five
years, and offered this as a sam
ple of what went on:
Police Officer Frank Wilson
came across a bunch of young
thugs beating an elderly man in
front of the Embassy theatre.
When he went to the aid of the
victim, the gang scattered but
he managed to catch one of the
young toughs in a nearby alley.
Suddenly, Officer Wilson was
surrounded by a mob of defiant
youths and young men shouting
"Let's get the cop." It was esti
mated that there were about 230
people in the mob when five offi
cers with police dogs moved into
the fray, split the mob into two
groups and rescued Officer Wil
son. From Reno:
Revelers, in a downtown casi
no area welcomed the New Year
with a shower of beer bottles and
cocktail glasses here early yes
terday, doing about $10,000 dam
age to huge neon signs.
Police moved into the mob of
some 3,000 persons and scattered
it When the crowd was subdued,
Assistant Police Chief Bill Broad-
head commented angrily: "The
disturbing thing ' was that men
and women on the sidewalk were
APPLAUDING TI1E MESS."
And so on from all over the
nation. And, likewise, from all
over the world. This, for exam
ple, from Rome:
Exactly at midnight, people
began hurling old pots, pans, dish
es and other rubbish from their
windows, which in Italy is a sym
bolic way of throwing out the old
year. The crockery shower is
against the law, but that didn't
stop the celebrating. By two min
utes after midnight, nearly every
street in Rome was a shambles.
Quite a mess?
Well, lest totally wrong impres
sions of this modern world be
gained, let's end this symposium
of sin and silliness on a more
hopeful note.
At Stratford, Conn., yesterday
Dr. Burton H. Fern died at the
age of 37. He served, in the Air
Force medical corps in Korea
from 1051 to 1953. Returning home
after his Air Force duty, he
opened a pediatric practice at
Straliord. Two years later, spinal
polio left him paralyzed from the
neck down. His body and chest
muscles were rendered useless by
the disease, but he retained his
hearing, speech, vision and a
SPIRIT THAT ONLY DEATH
COULD CONQUER.
Using a wheel chair, he went
back into practice. He traveled to
give lectures. He served as a
consultant on pediatrics. He en
gaged in research projects.
And-
He began to write a health col
umn, which was widely syndicat
ed. He produced it by pecking it
out on an electric typewriter
WITH A STICK HELD IN HIS
TEETH.
In addition to the other kind,
you sec. there are WONDER
FUL people in this world. Hero
ic people. Dauntless people, who
just won't give up doing good.
Police Hunt
Child Killer
PORTLAND i UPI '-Search con
tinued here today for the slayer
of little Mona Rae Minyard. 6.
Tortland. Her body was found in
a wooded area southeast of here
Monday.
An autopsy showen the hlnndc
blue . eyed girl was raped and
death came from suffocation.
Clackamas County Deputy Coro
ner Douglas Pratt said further
tests will be needed before the
exact nature of the assault and
death will be known.
Hood Climbed
By One Team
TIMBERLINE LODGE iUPI
The annual New Year's Day chmh
of Mt. Hood ended with only one
of the five teams reaching the
ummit Tuesday.
Edward Paset. 23. of Portland
and Tony Anderson. 12. of Ta
enma. Wash, said they battled
lno-mllan-tKlur custs of ind and
er knocked off their feet sev
eral times. The wind and cold
turned back the four other tcj.ns.
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GREETINGS The Klamath Basin bowj to Tulelake. The California town took first
baby honors in 1963 with the arrival of a first child, a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Hodge at '4:29 a.m. on Now Year's Day. The bouncing boy weighed in with a lusty
yell at 7 lbs., 9'j ois. He has been named Rodney Bruce. The mother is the former
Linda Lewis of Tulelake. Hodge is employed by the Lava Beds National Monument,
U.S. Park Service.
Sen. Kerr's Death
Gap In Kennedy's
WASHINGTON (UPI I The
death of Sen. Robert S. Kerr,
"uncrowned king of the Senate."
left the Kennedy administration
with a leadership gap' in Congress
today with the new session only a
week away.
The Oklahoma Democrat, pos
sibly the most influential man on
Capitol Hill, died ot a heart at
tack at 10:50 a.m. EST Tuesday
in Doctors Hospital while sitting
on a bed talking to his physi
cian, Dr. James L. Keating.
Kerr was admitted to the hos
pital three weeks ago with a virus
ailment. A few days later he had
a heart attack but his admini
strative aide. Burl Hays, said
Monday that Kerr was "showing
steady improvement."
President Kennedy had counted
on the 66-year-old oil millionaire
to help steer his tax-cut bill and
other legislation through Congress.
Notified of his death, Kennedy
said Kerr would be greatly missed
when Congress opens next Wed
nesday and "even more so in the
months ahead."
Kerr's death will nut change the
party lineup in the Senate where
the Democrats have a fi"-33 edge
on the Republicans. There was
speculation that Oklahoma's out
going Democratic Gov. Howard
Edmondsbn might fill the Senate
scat.
Edmondson could resign before
Republican Henry Bellmon takes
office as governor on Jan. 14 and
get Lt. Gov. George Nigh to ap
point him to the Senate until the
next regular election in 19ft4.
Though they won't lose the Sen
ate seat to the GOP, the Demo
crats suffered a tremendous loss
in prestice and influence in Kerr's
death Both his friends and foes
Tax Reform Kennedys First Move To Keep US Prospering In '63
F.Hitnr's Note: As President
Kennedy surveys ms first two
years in the White House and
iooks at prospects for 1!M in a
gravely troubled world, his views
are reported on the highest au
thority m ihc (flowing article.
Bv MKRRIM.W SMITH
I PI White Hnue Rrpnrter
PALM BEACH. Fla. IPH -President
Kennedy at the dawn
of 1!W believes it will be pos
sible to keep the country relative-i
ty prosperous and avoid a
grnuth-stunting rise in unrmp'oy
ment. For this reason and becin-
nms this month, he intends to
wage an ail-out fight in Congress
lor tax reduction effective thi:
year.
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called him the Senate s un
crowned king" because of the
power he exerted in legislative
councils.
The President, who planned to
attend Kerr s funeral, said in a
statement of sympathy to the sen
ator's family, that "his legisla
tive accomplishments were excep
tional."
"In the last two years alone,"
Kennedy said, "almost every ma
jor bill enacted bore the mark
of his untiring leadership and
skill: The space program, the
trade hill, the (ax bill of 1962.
Rare Blood Rushed
To Aid Missionary
WASHINGTON UPD An
emergency shipment of rare type
blood was being rushed to Ghana
today, apparently in vain.
The Slate Department said it
was intended for a badly burned
American missionary in northern
Ghana. However, officials said to
day they had received word the
missionary died.
First reports from Ghana had
indicated the blood was lor U.S.
Ambassador William P. Mahoncy
Jr.
An official said the Stale De
partment received a request at
the beginning of the New Year's
holidays (mm the American Em
bassy in Ghana for six units of
rare AB-ncpative blood No details
ere given in the request.
The Stale Department contacted
the Red Cross, officials said, but
the request would have used up
The tax cut he enisions would)
not go into effect ail at once. It!
untilH he ntiAsed In take effect '
at different limes ,n order to !.s
tcn its impact on the budgi defi
cit. Before Trcasu-y Secretary
Douglas Dillon puts tlie detailed
administration, ouf-parkagr tax
reform hill before the House
Ways and Meins Committee, lnte
this month, the President and his
lieutenants face a (irst lieht
over whether to keep the House
Ruies Committee at IS members
or ailow it to revert to 12 mem
ber". Without a IS-merrber Rules
Committee. Kennedy fears the
next two vears will be virtual')'
barren of legis alive accomplish
Leaves
Congress
the improvements In social wel
fare and in national resource de
velopment." The Chief Executive's tribute
was an echo of the oft-repeated
quip heard in the cloakroom of
the 87th Congress "What Kerr
wants, Kennedy gets." Kerr's in
fluence extended far beyond his
chairmanship of the space com
mittee and membership on the fi
nance and public works commit
tees.
Other national leaders joined in
expressions of shock and sorrow
at Kerr's death.
the entire Washington area supply
of this type blood at the beginning
of a long weekend. The Red Cross
was reluctant to agree to the ship
ment witliout further information
why it was needed.
The State Department asked the
embassy (or details. It received
a reply that the blood was for a
missionary who had 60 per cent
burns and had been treated with
other types of negative blood.
without satisfactory results.
After this word was received
the blood was shipped out of New
York Tuesday night, partly from
Washington supplies and partly
from New York supplies. It rep
resents blood donations of 1.200
people.
Officials said now that the mis
sionary, whose name is not avail
able here, has died the State De
partment is requesting the blood
be shipped hack
ment and his program largely
un? ioptcd.
Jomeslically and economically.
the President feels the nation is
slightly better off than a year ago
today. But without the tax reduc
tion, he fears unemployment will
rise dangerously. For th;s reason,
once the Rules Committee fisht
is out of the way. the tax hill
will have first priority on his list
of needed legislation.
lnlernalvnial Field
In the international field, the
chief executive thinks Rus-ia
may hive learned a lesson from
Ihc Cuban missile venture and
thus helped tn improve slightly
chances for keeping the world at
peace in !!W3.
While this country has no inten
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ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga,
The Congo (UPI) United Na
tions troops resumed their drive
today toward President Moise
Tshombe's southern Katanga
strongholds of Jadotville and Kol
wezi. Tshomhe himself was believed
to be rallying his forces in or
around Kolwezi.
Tshomhe sent a message
through officials of the huge Union
Minierc combine asking for a
cease-fire so he could return to
Elisabethville and further talks
with the United Nations for rein
tegrating Katanga into the Congo.
The United Nations flatly rejected
Tshombe's cease-fire request.
In reply to this plea, a U.N.
pokesman in New York said it
is "too late for negotiations." He
said Secretary General Thant "is
definitely not seeking a resump
tion of negotiations over the Ka
tanga problem." The spokesman
said Thant "sees no need for fur
ther discussions except at the
technical level."
U.N. civilian chief Robert K.
Gardiner has offered Tshomhe a
safe conduct back to Elisabeth
ville to negotiate Katanga's inte
gration into the rest of the Congo
but said he would not agree to
any cease-fire.
Twice before the U.N. Com
mand agreed to a cease-fire with
Katangese forces, only to have
negotiations on reintegrating Ka
tanga w ith the rest of the Congo
collapse.
Indian troops of the U.N. Com
mand were halted in their drive
toward Jadotville Tuesday when
Katanga demolition experts blew
up a bridge thai had been rebuilt
only recently over the Lufira
River.
Tlie Indians called up bulldoz
ers to fill in the giant crater
blocking their way 30 miles from
the muling town.
U.N. spokesmen said air strikes'
had completely destroyed the
main Katanga air base at Kol
wezi.
In Leopoldvillc, Premier Cyrillc,
Yank Killed
In Viet Nam
SAIGON (UPI i An American
Army captain was killed todav
and three other Americans
wounded, two of them seriously
by Communists who shot down
five U.S. Army helicopters, a
U.S. military spokesman an
nounced.
The spokesman said the slain
captain was a military adviser
taking part in a government as'
sault on the eastern edge of the
Plain of Reeds, about 30 miles
southwest of Saigon.
He said the wounded Ameri
cans apparently were helicopter
crewmen.
Four of the doned copters
were H2ls from the 93rd Hell
copter Company stationed at Soc
(rang. The other was an HU1B
from UT Company, stationed in
Saigon.
A spokesman at Snctrang told
UPI two of the helicopters were
repaired and flown back to Tan
Hiep Airfield, the staging area for
the assault.
The three others were still in
the rice fields where they fell
Informed military sources said
the assault was mounted by
strong Vietnamese force against
hat is estimated to be a bat
talion of Vict Cong.
Thev said about 1.200 govern
ment troops wore airlifted into the
area in an attempt to trap the
guerrillas.
tion of invading Cuba, the Presi
dent has made it clear that ab
sence of American action is con
tingent on Cuba living at peace
with her neighbors. He believes
in time that Premier Fidel Castro
will be toppled, but he does not
know how or when this change
will take place He wants it un
derstood, however, that the Unit
ed States would be sympathetic
toward a shift to new and free
government In Cuba.
Generally, tlie President takes
a guarded attitude toward the
(continuing East-West stnuzgle in
IM. He finds the military bal
ance of power still on the side
of the West. The United Stales
in his opinion also has an edge
in nuclear weapons. And despite
For C
ease
Adoula announced that Congo
President Joseph Kasavubu had
decreed the closing of central
government's parliament for 90
days.
The move had been expected
since mid-November when parlia-:
ment had come close to over
throwing Adoula.
Adoula also announced that the
president would grant a pardon
to any Katanga politician who
came back to supjwrt the central
government.
WASHINGTON (UPI I The
Eastern Blizzard
eaves 27 Dead
BOStON (UPD-Rescue teams
today continued their round-the-
clock search for families, motor
ists and ice fishermen trapped by
the w-orst blizzard oi the century
in northern Maine.
The bitter storm relaxed its
grip on most of the Northeast
Tuesday and moved out to sea.
leaving in its wake at least 27
victims.
The U.S. Weather Bureau
promised clear skies and warmer
weather throughout the region to
day. v
At Bangor, Maine, where the
blizzard dumped three feet of
snow on the level and drifts up
to 20 feet deep, officials said it
would be at least a week before
conditions returned to normal.
Plows Patrol Roads
Giant bulldozers and snow plows
patrolled highways in northern
and centrnf Maine to battle
steady drifting that continued to
bury many roads as quickly as
they could be plowed out.
More snow fell Monday in
Maine, where authorities feared
more than 2.000 persons might be
marooned.
The rest of the Northeast ex
perienced relief from biting winds
and sub-zero temperatures that
closed schools, stalled cars, inter
rupted electric and telephone
service and caused a rash of
fires.
Nine New Englandcrs died in
fires during the storm and its aft
ermath. The most recent victim
was a union official whose house
at Portland, Maine, was destroyed
by flames early today.
Nine crewmen of the tugboat
First Zoning
Hearing Set
The first of four public hearings
concerning the proposed zoning
plan for the suburban area will be
held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in
the public meeting room at 1 h e
Klamaih County Court.
All persons residing in or own
ing property in the area west of
Washburn Way and north of Air
way Drive, including Cove Point,
Wocus, Stewart-Lenox and Weyer
haeuser, are invited to attend the
meeting.
The four hearings will be held
to enable citizens to present tes
timony concerning their support
or objections to the proposed
plan. The county court will hear
the testimony at the hearings and
then make its decision on the
plan
stray hints lu the contrary, he
finds no currently dependable evi
dence that Russia wants to de
liberately better relations with
the West.
Domestic and foreign pros
pects taken together, the Prev
Went sees IsU as a year of !n
rreavd peril lor the United
fXnU-i. hut an era ol more op
portunities lir advancement. It
Is possible to report this and
other Kennedy altitudes at the
new year as the result of con
versations her In Palm Bearh
where he Is spending a mined
rrst-and-wnrk holiday. Ills as
sociates responsible Inr this re
port are rlrsrlv sulhnrltatlve.
Stall planning sessions lor the
Fire
United States will begin shipping
trucks, armored personnel car
riers and mine clearing equip
ment to the United Nations forces
in the Congo within a week, offi
cial U.S. sources said today.
They said this country also will
station three transport aircraft
and one tanker plane in Leopold
ville, the central capital, to pro
vide continuing transport within
the Congo for the U.N. forces.
Official sources said the United
Stales has notified the United Na
tions of the aid shipments in re
sponse to the world organization's
requests.
Gwendolyn Spears perished in
Long Island Sound Sunday when
the vessel floundered in heavy
seas. One body was recovered.
Yachtsman Plea
A yachtsman also died when he
ventured into the sound in a
small boat trying to reach his
yacht, which had ripped loose
from its moorings.
Other storm victims included a
63-year-old Woonsocket, R.I., man
who died of exposure, a Vermont
highway worker whose snowplow
overturned and four men whose
hearts failed as they shoveled
snow or trudged through heavy
drifts.
Air Force helicopters from the
snow-trained 42nd Air Rescue De-
taclunent at Dow Air Force Base
in Bangor, game wardens and
bush pilots scoured the vast'
reaches of Maine wilderness in
search of stranded fishermen and
snowbound families in need of.
aid.
Officials expressed fear that
more deaths would occur if
stranded parties were not rescued
soon.
New Storm
Hits British
LONDON (UPI) The third
blizzard since Christmas gathered
force in western England today
bringing new woes to Britain, al
ready suffering its worst winter
in S2 years.
The new storm was part of a
vicious weather pattern that has
blanketed Europe with snow and
cold from the Atlantic to Siberia
lor 10 days.
Britons, little equipped to han
dle snows of major proportions,
struggled with 20 foot drifts. Vast
snowfields isolated hundreds of
villages and blocked thousands of
roads, including at least 200 main
highways.
Safety Record
Hopes Dashed
Ry I'nited Press International
The New Year's holiday traffic
toll edged upward today, dashing
hones that the naton's drivers
had set a safety rcord.
The National Sdcly Council,
however, said tlie final death count
for tlie 'four-day holiday weekend
still would be below advance es
timates. legislative year resume Way
In Kennedy's quarters.
The President anticipates no
less a laborious and troublesome
year with Congress than he ex
perienced in l2 Ranked a
hade behind tax reduction, medi
cal care (or the aged financed
through social security and fed
eral aid to education will be
pushed again by the administra
tion. The President is determined
In get a decision on Medicare In
1M hut he realizes this will be
a difficult task.
Keonomle Outlnpk
Economically, he thinks busi
ness is reasonably good and for
tins reason, 1983 is a better time
to put across a tax cut than wait
ing until unemployment rolls the
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BANANA BELT RECREATION In strong contrast to
arctic blizzards in the east, Ronald Owens of Keno laid
claim New Year's Day to being the first Klamath County
man to water ski in '63. He opened the year by cavort
ing gaily in the open Klamath River water at the Keno
bridge. He did cheat a little on the cold, however, by
wearing a rubberized skin-diving suit.
Hew Year's
Reaches Seven In 'Slate
By I'nited Press International
At least seven persons died in
accidents in Oregon during the
long New Year's holiday weekend.
Four died in traffic, one person
died In a fire, an industrial acci
dent took a lite, and a man was
killed on a private road when he
fell from a car.
The official W62 traffic death
toll was 4D0, five less than the
previous year. One person died on
New Year's Day.
The Slate Motor Vehicles De
partment safety division said Wal
ter Doran Frazier, 28, Bates, was
killed on a private road and his
Meai Plant
Shattered
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. UPI
An explosion shattered a meat
packing plant today, burying dead
and injured workmen under tons
of debris and endangering surviv
ors and rescue workers with dead
ly ammonia fumes.
At least two persons were known
dead and police feared the toll
might rise to II in the blast at
I he Home Packing Co. At least
m persons were injured, some crit
ically. Police Chief Frank Riddle said
survivors told him nine men were
trapped inside a freezer buried
beneath a slack of debris. Riddle
said any men trapped in such a
fashion were undoubtedly dead.
Of the 210 men reported work
ing in the. plant when the explo
sion occurred, 200 were accounted
lor four hours later.
nation Into another recession. Hej
regards his relations with the
business community as more sat
isfactory than tliey were six
months ago, but he also attri
butes this in part to business, It
self, being more satisfactory than
it was last June.
He foresees 1963 trouble in the
labor management field with
hard to settle strikes arising from
automation, work rules and tech
nological changes, particularly
when such changes result in abol
ition of Jobs.
The lat unemployment figures
showed about 5.8 per cent of the
work force mt of "jobs. Kennedy
believes that even with Inroads
caused by automation and the ad
dition ol one million people a
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death is not officially listed as a
tr.iffic death.
Mrs. Anna May Shadey, 50, Eu
gene, v.ys tlie new year s first
official traffic fatality. She was
killed when tlie car in which she
was riding was struck from be
hind by another car on the Wil
lamette Pass highway east of
Goshen.
Fiie Claims Woman
A fire at Tigard early Tuesday
took the life of Mrs. Virginia
Grey, B4. She was trapped inside
an old frame house when the fire
broke out.
Edmund W. Currier. 59, New-
berg, was killed Monday when a
pile of sawdust fell and suffocated
him as he worked to load it into
truck bed. His body was found
Tuesday.
Three persons died in traffic
Saturday.
Leslie Peterson, 6, Kettle Falls,
was killed in a one-car crash
near John Day. Guy Day, 86, Eu- -reka,
Calif., died when struck by
a car near Lakeside.
Agda Johnson, 21, Portland, was
killed in a head-on crash near
Dayton.
Organizational
Caucus Called
SALEM (UPI I An organization
al caucus of the 1JK3 House of
Representatives has been called
for 8 p.m. Jan. 13 in room 6 of
the State Capitol Building here.
Rep. Clarence Barton, D Co.
quille, speaker - designate of the
House, and V. F. Montgomery,
R Eugene, minority leader of the
1N61 session, called the meeting.
yea.' to trie worn lorce, un
employment can be kept from in
creasing if Congress passes his
new tax program. With a tax re
duction phased as the administra
tion will propose, Kennedy would
expect to keep unemployment be
low S per cent. Without the tax
hill, there would be some growth
In the production rate, but also a
growth In unemployment prob
ably higher than 8 per cent.
Politically, the President re
gards his second term candi
dacy as more or less Inevi
table; he (eels be Is In good
political shape now, hut he ex
pects decline In popularity of
his administration as measured
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