! TIm-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
Catching up on the news this
morning, one's eye falls on this
headline sentence:
RED GUNNERS DOWN FLEET
OF U.S. HELICOPTERS.
For the moment, your hair
stands on end. is this IT?
Then ... you note that it
happened in SAIGON where our
military forces have relatively lit
tle business to be.
So
You relax.
That brings up the Congo
How much business do we have
there?
Well
United Nations forces, support
ed by U.S. dollars and U.S. men
and materials, are sajd this morn
ing to be racing to protect three
huge and critical hydro-electric
power dams upon which the econ
omy of not only the single prov
ince of Katanga but the whole
Congo as well more or less de
pends.
If the dams are destroyed
BLOWN UP by whatever action
might lake a notion to blow them
up the big mining operations
upon which the economy of the
entire Congo rests would have to
shut down for lack of power.
That would push the Congo still
farther over toward utter anar-,
chy.
It encourages us to hope that
we may be doing SOME good in
this mixed-up Congolese situation
in Central Africa.
Oddity in the news:
In Kalem thk morninp. the Ore
gon Legislative Interim Highway
Committee says mere is appar
ently no specific law against
DRIVING THE WRONG WAY on
a divided highway.
The committee recommends
legislation to take care of the sit
uation. Hmmmmmmm.
There may be no STATUTE
law forbidding driving the wrong
way on a divided highway, but
it is forbidden by the law of com
mon sense and the penalty for
violation of it is very likely to;
be death.
That is a capital penalty no
governor can commute.
Incidentally
The committee says that police
have faced the question of what
offense to charge a person with
who has been found driving along
a freeway IN OPPOSITION TO
THE TRAFFIC.
It's a problem, sure enough.
How are you going to go about
arresting somebody for violating
a law that doesnt exist? But
isn't there some kind of law on
the books against insane persons
running loose?
Only an insane person or a
person pie-eyed drunk would de
liberately drive the wrong way
on a crowded modern freeway.
From Los Gatos this morning:
Ed Braschini, 5". of Salinas,
survived two days in the Sanla
Cruz mountains because of his
knowledge of woodlore. He was
hunting with an aunt and uncle,
but became separated from them.
Two days later, he found his way
to a small country store by fol
lowing a stream. He explained:
"Once you find running water,
never leave it. I found this stream
and knew enough to stay with it."
Well
Admittedly It's a good rule. But if it's the
only rule you know you'd belter
stay out of the woods especially
at this season of the year.
Kennedy Told
Ag Problems
By MKRRIMAN SMITH
VP! White House Reporter
PALM PEACH. Fla. UPI -Agriculture
Secretary Orville L.
Freeman reported lo Presideni
Kennedy today that American
farmers face "make or break"
decisions in I9M.
One of these critical decision,
according to the secretary, will
be the wheat referendum this
year to determine whether acre
age controls and Broduction quo
tas are continued. A ncgitive re-
ult in the referendum, Freeman
lold Kennedy, onuld result in
wheat prices plummeting to $! a
bushel in 1964.
kVrmcdv and Freeman met at
the President's oceanfront villa to
duniss the t!W legislative pro
gram for agriculture. During the
conference the secretary submit
ted a memorandum topped hy
three critical needs to be met this
year. In addition to favorable
vote in the wheat reicrenrium
Freeman listed:
Securing fair compentne ar
rangements with the European
rnmmon Market on key agricul
tural products, particularly for
wheat and flour, feed grains, rice
and poult-y.
ra- lesislalion on teed grain"
cotlon and dairy products to avoid
further increases in surpluses.
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Soviet Peasants
Seek US
MOSCOW (UPU-A group of 32
peasant men, women and children
who had traveled 2,000 miles
from Siberia, pushed past Soviet
guards into the U.S. Embassy to
day seeking asylum from reli
gious persecution."
The embassy turned them over
to Soviet officials who took the
peasants away in a bus. Many of
them were weeping and protesting
that they would be shot for their
religious beliefs.
trnbassy policy m Moscow is
to refuse refuge to Soviet citizens,
presumably because of the politi-
problems which would arise
as well as the lack of facilities
for housing them in the embassy
building,
Although seeking refuge in the
embassy, the group did not ask
for political asylum, an embassy
pokesman said. Embassy offi
cials explained to the peasants
that they could not leave Russia
without permission from Soviet
authorities and that an embassy
could not make such arrange
ments. This argument finally per
suaded them to start boarding the
bus.
Members of the group referred
JACK CARSON
Actor Hides
Last Illness
ENCINO. Calif. UP1) Actor
lack Carson turned in one of his
greatest performances during the!
last two months of his lite by
concealing a death-dealing cancer.
He died Wednesday at the age
of 52 of a malignancy of the iiver.
Carson succumbed only a few
hours before cancer claimed an
other Hollywood personality, actor
producer Dick Powell, and less
than three weeks since the death:
of character actors Charles!
Laughton and Tliomas Mitchell
both also of cancer.
Carson's death came as a shock:
to his friends, who had not been
told of the actor's illness at his
insistence. He had undergone sur
gery about six weeks ago for the
malignancy and was confined to
bed at home for the past two
weeks. His wife, Sandra, and
brother, Robert, were with him
when death came.
Frank Stempel, Carson's agent
for more than 25 years, said the
actor's closest friends were told of
his illness only recently.
Jack evidently knew he had
cancer, but tie flidn i leu any
body." he said. "I talked to Jack
Tuesday night and this morning.
He wasn't feeling well, but he
was all right."
But a hint of Carson's failing
health came last Aug. 26 at New
ark, N.J., when he collapsed on
stage during dress rehearsal for
Critics' Choice." Physicians said
at the time he had a stomach
disorder.
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to themselves as "Evangelica:
Christians" who do not recognize
any form of organized religion
but merely are persons who claim
equality among themselves and
pray to God,
Separated from Children
The peasants complained they
had not been allowed to observe
religious holidays and had been
barred from contact with their
children in some instances.
One man getting on the bus to
leave the embassy compound told
newsmen he had not seen his
children for two years.
"This is not funny," he sighed
"This is tragic."
Russian-speaking Western cor
respondents heard some members
of the group talking of a comrade
who they claimed had been "rot
ting m prison" for two years.
The same thing will happen
to us," one of the group said.
Soviet Foreign Ministry officials
also were heard assuring the
members of the group that "noth
ing will happen to you."
But it did not appear that anv
formal guarantee had been given
Embassy sources said the peas
ants had been given a meal of
eggs, toast and coffee in the em
bassy lunchroom before they were
taken away by Soviet authorities.
Some of the elderly men in the
group wept. Others argued with
Soviet Foreign Ministry officials
who had been called to the em
bassy compound.
One man told an embassy ofu
cial:
"We don't want to go any
where. Thev will shoot us,-"
Another said in a loud voice to
newsmen:
"Those who believe in God and
Christ help us. We ask it. We
ask that those who believe in God
and Christ help us."
Soviet plamclothesmen threat
ened to confiscate the camera of
any Western photographer who
took a picture of the departing
bus load of peasants.
A U.S. Embassy statement said
the band was from the Siberian
city of Chernogrosk and entered
the embassy compound "assert
ing religious persecution."
"The embassy notified the Min
istry of Foreign Affairs and
asked that the people be cared
for. the statement said.
The group pushed its way past
the two pairs of Soviet militia
men inlicemeni who normally
guard the two embassy gales at
the rear of the compound.
Meat Plant Blast
Claims 15 Victims
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. iUPIt-
Rescue teams today recovered two
more bodies from the rubble of a
big meat packing plant destroyed
by a violent explosion Wednesday.
The death toll rose to is as
rescuers worked relentlessly in an
attempt to reach one other work
er missing and presumed dead.
An official of the Home Packing
Co. said a payroll check showed
that only one man remained an.
accounted for.
At least 58 workers required
hospital treatment, and hospital
attendants said six were in crit
ical condition today.
Mayor Ralph Tucker, who per
sonally directed rescue opera
tions, said there was no hope the
missing men could have survived.
An official of the Home Pack
Reicuo worker, were forced
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SOUTH INTERCHANGE WORH UNDERWAY Construcfion work oa the bridge
that will span Lake Ewauns ior trie south interchange of fhe wet side byp is mov
ing rapidiy ahead, Beiidet the demeiishing of a servise itafiort to make room for an
off-ramp for southbound traffic, workmen are busy getting ready to pour concrete
pillars to support the bridge structure which will take off from about the top of the
incline nearinq Main Street, In this view, workmen are preparing areaj for pouring the
supporting pillars, Tom Lillebo, Reedspert, has the contract. The State Highway De
partment listed the estimated cost of the project as $361,000, and completion date as
April !, 1964.
Zoning Opposition
At County Court
The great majority of residents
d landowners who attended the
first county court hearing on the
suburban zoning proposal showed
very vigorous and sometimes un
controlled opposition to zoning.
The meeting was conducted hy
tlie county planning commission
under the direction of Bob Norris,
chairman. Two members of the
county court, commissioners
Frank Ganong and Ken Allison
were present at the meeting.
The meeting was heM lor resi
dents and property owners of the
area west of Washburn Way and
north of Airway Drive. The sec
ond hearing, which will lie held
at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at the county
court, will he for residents and
property owners in the area cast
of Washburn Way and north of:
South Sixth Street.
There were about 150 persons;
present at Wednesday's meeting.
Out of almost .19 persons who;
came torwara 10 present icsu
mony about 25 were against the
proposal.
ing Co. said "it will be dayj he
fore we have a damage estimate
or know the cause. Ail we know
now is that the plant is a total
loss."
Massive rescue operations were
curtailed about midnight when
police feared a heavy pile of de
bris might collapse.
Rescue teams, guided by flood
lights, wore gas masks to combat
deadly ammonia fumes as they
probed the huge piies of rabWe.
"We won't give up until every
one's accounted for," Police Chief
Frank Riddle said.
The 12th body brought out of
the wreckage was that of John
Joseph Sr.. 59, Terre Haute, who
oniy minutes before the morning
blast occurred had returned to
work after a two-week vacation
to don jas masks due to
COS?,
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON',
The testimony, however, wasjiiy of these reasons. Tlie restric-;
not new. The same reasons for jiions on animals have been gross-
opposing the plan were givenjiy exaggerated and misinterpret-
time and again. Two of the main
reasons for opposition were that
the plan would be an infringe
ment on the basic individual rights:
guaranteed by the constitution and
that toning would eventually be
detrimental to livestock owners.
Tiie planning commission has
continually challenged the valid-
Tshrimbe's
Stronghold
Falls To UN
LEOPOLDViLLE, The Congo:
UPD United Nations forces cap
tured Katanga President Msise
Tshomne's stronghold town of Ja.
dotviile today.
A U.N, spokesman announced
the fall of the vital mining center
io a force made up of Indian ar
mor and Ethiopian infantry.
Tshomne's whereabouls were
unknown. He had pledged a bitter
scorched earth" fight to the end;
to keep Katanga from failing an-:
der U.N. control.
An estimated 3,0fifl native Ka-
tangese gendarmes and at least;
too white mercenaries had been
reported dug in at Jadotviiie for:
iast-nrtch struggle. '
The U.N. assault force suffered
casualties in the preliminary skir
mishing as St pressed forward on
Jadotviiie and Koiwezi despite Ka
tangese efforts to deiay it with
blown bridges and rear-guard
stands.
Jadotviiie is S miies northwest
of the Katanga capitai of Elisa
hethviile on the main road to
Koiwezi, which lies 80 miles far
ther northwest ef Jadotviiie,
Both cities are key cenfere of
mining operations inr use vast
Union Miniere, which exploits Ka
tanga's rich copper and cobalt re
sources.
Koezi also is the site of the
mam hatanga sir Base, wmefi
L' N forces said had been be-:
stroyed.
Medford Police
Find Sisters
VEDKfffiD tUPU-Two sisters
whs had been the object of
search by the Jackson County;
wnff's office all day were found
'i 'csday evening war tlie
Jackson Count community ef
ftuch.
Tne girls were turned over to
luveniie authorities as runaways
Their parents reported them
missing from their rxim? at Apple-
jM'e about tarn, four regular
depuiies and four special deputies
conducted an all-day search.
The sisters, aged 14 and 7, walk
rd into a grocery store at Rurh
in the afternoon. The storekeeper
recognized tiiem but they fled
hen he asked their identity. He
sailed sheriff's officer! and the
CirU were taken into custody at
i.07 pro.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, tm
Voiced
Hewing
ed and the "infringement
rights" is no greater than basic
trafiic regulations, fire and sani-i
tary codes, the commission feeis
One of the dissenters, Marvin
Furiow, Route 3, tdd the commis
sion be has contacted 54 of bis
neighbors and all are opposed to
the zoning plan. Furiow said zon
ing is part of a cancerous growtl:
that continue to cut silvers from
everyone's const Uutioaai r
Tlie court slrauid throw out tiie
whole proposal without wasting
taxpavers money on a vote, Fur
iow foil.
George Kunxman, t275 Lake
shore Drive, said he was opposed
io the plan for two reasons: Gov
ernment,-)! planning is wrong In
principal m the first place; plan
ning is necessary, but it must be
private planning, he said. Another;
reason given hy Kunzman was;
that in his opinion planning hasn't
even worked in the city, "There
is loo much chance for special:
privilege," lie said.
Another recurrent theme of op-:
position was stated by Lowei! Ma-:
son, Jioute 3, Wocus. "We moved
nut of the city to get freedom,"
Mason said. Mason's statement
that the suburban people don't
want zoning and don't need zon
ing apparently was accepted by
most present at the meeting. The
cry "just leave us alone" was
rampant.
One of the few people mat em
braced the inning proposal was
Jay Thompson, 3224 CorteJ Street.
Thompson said tlie entire area is
growing and plans must be made
for future development to main
tain and increase the resale value
of homes and property. "Zon
ing has to come once we begin to
think about the future," Thompson
said.
Profit Made
By Mistake
POHTLAND stlPH A Bedford
firm and Talent businessmen
were named today as the recipi
ents of profitable U.S. Forest
Servif land in exchanges made
to years ago.
fievernment auditors said at
Washington, O.C., Wednesday fhat
Forest Service mistakes had re
sulted in windfall profits to pri
vate interests that acquired iand
m the Bogue Biver National For
est.
The tieneral Accounting OH")
report said two e hanges, sne is j
Jansiary and one m May, w '
netted an ultimate total profit 0!
KOT.OBO to the private interests.
Tiie report blamed faulty Forest
Service apprsihsfo
The Forest Service here saldj
the Janiiary transaction was with
fidsard G and Raymond H. Tay-j
kir of Talent According ts the
report, thev received 140 acres
n
at
appraised at hi 105 m trchan
for 1,172 acres appraised
Tft.im The i) acres later were
sold for m.
The agency said the M.iy trans
artmn bs with B and W Mmmg
Co, Medford.
THrjm
Sought ECenn
WASHINGTON UPI - Presi
dent Kennedy will send Congress:
a tas package calling for across-
the-board reductions of about $8j
billion with substantial offsetting
tax reforms, it was learned to
day.
in a preview of 'what can be
expected in Kennedy's long-:
awaited tas program, congres
sional sources said tlie first tut
in income taxes would be sched
uled for July 1, Additional reduc
tions will be spaced over iuture
months.
As far reforms, pieiimisarv
estimates are that Kennedy will
seek about $3.3 billion in new rev
enue through "tas loophole" clos
ing revisions, including redaction;
m the 37.5 per cent gas-oii de
piction allowance, sources said.
One administration source said
the tas cuts sougiit by Kennedy
to stimulate the economy may he
as bigs as W Miion over-ail
Apply To Ail
la giving the broad outlines of:
the administration's tax program,
informants said Uie reductions
would apply to ail individual fax-
payers from Hie low 20 pet cent;
to the high 91 per cent brackets.;
Kennedy aiso will ask that the
a per cent corporate income tax
be reduced.
Details of Use program, such as;
ffective dates and exact rate rc
tactions in each bracket of per
sonal income taxes, must await
Kennedy's tax message ts Con
gress later this month.
But informed sources said that
one pian given serious considers-:
tion is to split the lowest brack
ct, making one rate for iaxabie:
income from lera ts IMS lor!
single persons, sad anotber rate'
trom $t, to 18,008.
The Jowest tax now t 38 per
cent on income trom zero to f2,
009 for single persons, la the easel
of married persons tiling a Joisit
return, it is SO per cent on the
first $4,800.
tlrpresents Saife
It is in the lower brarkels:
where the bulk of the taxpayers
are Soeatcn, and even a small cut
tiie rate causes huge lossj
revenues ts She Treasury.
For example, a reduction from
28 to 19 per cent would cost tlie
Treasury $1.3 biiixm a year.
Tiie actual pocketoaa impact
on individual taxpayers, however,:
is relatively small.
Assuming an aeross-the-tsoard
tax cut sf JO per cent in aii
Bay City Explosion
Injures 7 Firemen
SAN FRANCISCO tllTD-Two;
firemen were barely clinging to;
life today snd five ethers were;
hospitalized following a gas ex-i
pisjssoo which leveled a two-story
boase assd sent part of the atrne-:
tare crashing atop the lire-:
fighters. j
The presence of escaping gas:
censed Disaster Corpa official to:
move residents oat of a five-:
block area in the southern see-:
tion ef the city Wednesday night:
Battalion Chief Frank Lamey;
had a heart attack while fccip-;
ing to fight the tire and was:
jdead on srrivai at a hospital. The;
two critically injured firemen, IA,
Clarence McGraih and Anthony
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warkina in and areund h bus Wins war Nurad.Ww l $hm "vary srttieally, :
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brackets, the average redaction in!
the amount ef taxes paid hy a:
person earning $5,000 or less:
wvfflld be only $27 a year, or a:
little more than ti a month in:
ios'er federal taxes.
For persons earning $i,fiBB to:
$S0,M a year, a H per cent cut:
a if fi
u.x joiaiers vie
In Viet Nam War
TAN H1KP. South Viet Nam
VPV One si the most farisnsj
battles sf the war against Cum
munist guerrillas in South Viet
Nam went info its second say
today taking a terrible toil in!
human lives.
At least three American soldier
were seas ana tour wsumlea
bringing to ,18 the number of;
Americans killed in action in Viet!
Nam,
South Vieinamese military cas
ualises were expected io ran as
high as 108 kiiies ana sounded
Communist Viet Cong cass al
lies were unknown but were Be
lieved to be eves higher. There;
also was s possibility el high!
eaiuaWoa among the 0 to Wi
persons living in the bbbu Me
kiong River deita bamiet where
the main tightrng raged.
Tlie guerrillas, wise tssuaBv
avoid direct dashes a4 lade m-i
to tlse jungle when attacked, put
sib surprisingly stitt resistance as-
thoagh beaviiy oatssimbered by
government forces,
it was perhaps tte iirst iixeai
pasitUm tg& ibat the Comma
nans has put up la to tang, saaai-
iv shadowy Biasmiia war.
In addition to the fanrara isfi,
ihey siiot down five American
maimed helicopters and aererelyl
damaged at least six other wsthi
witiserins fire by automatic.
weapons.
Two sf tiie American oeao were
heiicoitter crewmen, beta Anay;
iwvEranin Tim third wsa a ran-
tsisi wise was leading sa assault.
by the Ssntb Vietnamese army:
battalion he had sees JyJsmg.
He was bit in the neck and:
chest and evacuated ts Tas Hiepj
airfield, about Ht miies away,
wtare he died while BndfrgaiBS:
Slareiich, received jerioaa barns,
Tiie explosion packed enough
force ts drive a broom handle
Jhrnusb a waii. Fire Chief Wil
liam Murray aaid the pilot light:
of the seven-rmsm bouse ignited;
gas fumes, setting oft the blast,
itaidents of the bsme bad been
removed earlier.
The firemen had been caDed sst
io control a gas main teak, They
were standing is front of fee
bouse when the explssien sc-;
rurred, blowing the fear walls of;
the home apart and collapsing;
one end si the structure atop;
them,
Repair crews shut off the rap-:
lured gas mem Wednesday eight.
I ifiir 1 1 ill" 1 mini''.
f lama and smeka eoar out
Weather J
Klamath Fails, Tutelage and
Lakpvlew Mosily fair ieriit and
Friday with patchy tog late to.
sight or Friday moraine. Colder
taijhi. Lows B is fewer Klamath
Basin to aear 20 is Klamash Falls
and Lafceview, High ss Friday 42.
would meaa $37,20 less taxes a
year.
At the other extreme, persons
earning JSo,wu or more objo
benefit from an average tss say.
ings sf $S,fl9B s year ss an
aeross-theisard JB jser cent re
diwtion is the higher brackets.
emergency medteal treatment.
The heJicoBiers ran mts the
deadly Communist fire 'siiie fer
rying fa troops to reinforce gov
ernment forces which bad been
pinned down white msvTng syer
iand toward the hamlet.
Ten American H2t heacspiers
responded to the t& They were
escorted by live reeket-ladea
HU1B helicopters.
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Dick Powell
HOLLVWGOB iVPli -iMcfc
Powell, whs rase from baby-
fared aingfag roles to become 3
mevie-teteyisies giant, died sf
kaneer Wednesday rnht with bis
wife, Jans Aliyass, at bis aide.
The 38-year-eM aisr bad been
; a coma for two days after a
feur-meaib battle against tnaiig
nancies la bis chest and lywpb
glands.
The end came at S:39 pm.
only a tew sours after bis friend.
Jack Carson, bad died ef cancer
of the liver.
'Cick was very brave all tha
way through it," a famiiy friend
said, "
Powell was stricken last Sep
tember and was hospitalised for
cobalt treatments which, doctors
sua swelling near bit seart. The
actor was released and returned
to his desk at Four-Star produc
tions ts esntisue bis work as bead
sf the studio.
last Bsestb, bswever, he an
nounced be wss stable is cefH
tisae as host of his s.va "Bkls
Powell Shew."
At that time be csmplained ef
paifls la bis back and was read
mitted to the hospital where ft
was discovered cancerous growth
bad spread throsgb hia body.
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