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By FRANK JENKINS
One of today's most interesting
stories concerns the little band of
CHRISTIAN peasants from Siber
ia who somehow got clear to Mos
cow in an effort to get out of
Communist Russia to some place
where they could find religious
freedom.
In Moscow, they pushed their
way into the U.S. embassy, ap
parently seeking sanctuary. The
United States doesn't recognize
the granting of asylum by embas
ties or consular offices.
The instructions to our people
in these offices are to permit ex
c e p t i o n s "on humanitarian
grounds" in cases of "uninvited
fugitives whose lives are in im
minent danger from mob violence
but ONLY during tlie period the
active danger continues.
So -
Our embassy people had to call
up the Soviet Foreign Office and
describe what had happened. Af
ter a four-hour delay, the Rus
sians sent over a bus. The little
band of seekers for religious free
dom was pushed aboard the bus
and driven off under guard of
plainclothes Russian policemen.
As they left the American em
bassy, Uiey were weeping and
protesting. One of them shouted:
"We don't want to go anywhere
here in Moscow. They will shoot
us." Another cried out: "Let us
be sent to any country. There is
no place for us here. We appeal
to all brothers and sisters who be
lieve in Christianity."
The shabbily dressed Siberians
told embassy officials they had
hoped that the Americans would
help them to get out of the So
viet Union. They described them
selves as Evangelical Christians.
They said they do not believe in
submitting to any state religious
authority.
What shall we say about it all?
Well, there isn't much that we
can say. If we are to have an
embassy in Russia, we must sub
mit to Russian regulations just
as the Russians must submit
at least openly to American rcg-1
illations if they are to have an
embassy in Washington." All of
that was involved when many
years ago we extended diplomat
ic recognition to Russia.
But it's hard for us to forget
that a very large share of the
immigrants who came to this new
land centuries ago came seeking
freedom from religious oppres
sion. That immigration, and the
reason for it. is a very impor
tant chapter in our history.
Interesting thought:
One seldom hears of BIG SHOT
COMMUNISTS running away
from communism or TRYING to
run away from communism. They
are TOO WEIJ, TAKEN CARE
OK there.
The communisl system is de
signed lo lake care of the Big
Shots. It is the ordinary run of
people who are so anxious to get
away from communism that they
can be kept in communist coun
tries only by WALLS and by po
lice regulations. The Berlin Wall
provides a shining example ol
thai.
It is much lo be doubled if a
system as foul as the communist
svstcm can last indefinitely in
this century of the common man
If we can just keep out of war
long enough, communism will set
tie its own hash. 1". is too foul lo
live forever in this modern world.
'Spy' Pilot
Heads Home
ROME 't'PP A Bulgarian pi
lot, cleared of spy charges that
could have landed him in prisop
(or 24 years, arrived in Rome to
day arid said he would return to
his homeland as soon as possible.
The pilot. 2nd Lt. Milusc Sola
kov. 23. came from Ban. in south
ern Italy, where he had spent a
vrar in jail. He was freed Thurs
day by an examining magistrate
who ruled there was no ground
for a trial.
Bulgarian diplomats met him at
the train in Rome and whisked
him off in an automobile lo their
leiation.
"I am comg batk to Bulgaria
nghl away, very right away." the
well-dressed youns aviator told
newsmen at the Rome station
He declined to answer any oili
er questions but warmly embraced
one of the Bulgarian officials.
When he was released from
prison Thursday he totd
men. "I am glad that th truth
has triumphed and thai 1 can li
nally go home."
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DISCUSS CUTTING PLANS Plans for timber sales over the next 18 months were
discussed with lumbermen at a meeting Thursday night at the Winema Hotel. The ses
sion, fourth in an annual series, was sponsored by the Western Forest Industries As
sociation. Here, one of the timber sales proposed for the Winema is discussed by,
left to r.'ght, Alex Smith, Winema supervisor; Wayne Gaskins, executive secretary
of the WFIA; Carl Simpson, supervisor of the Fremont Forest, and Don Scofield,
BLM office in Medford. Pins on the map indicate proposed sales.
Timber Sale Plans
To Klamath Basin
Lumber operators from the
Klamath Basin area heard details
on proposed Umber sales during
the next 18 months by representa
tives from five national forests
and the Bureau of Land Manage
ment Thursday night at the Wi
nema Hotel.
The annual session of such tim
ber sales discussions was spon
sored by the Western Forest In
dustries Association with Wayne
lanchard
County Buying Job
Elmer "Bud" Blanchard has
been terminated as county pur
chasing agent by mutual consent
of himself and the county court,
statements from Blanchard and
County Commissioner Ken Alli
son indicated Thursday.
Blanchard's services as pur
chasing agent terminated ef
fective 5 p.m., Wednesday: al
though unexpected, the disas
sociation had been considered by
both parties for some time, Blan
chard said.
He had occupied his most recent
post since March of this year.
when he left the employment of
the Johns-Manville Company af
ter it closed its plant near Chilo-
quin and transferred to the east'vear.
Howe Outlines Problems Facing Legislature
By FLOYD I.. WYNNE
The plight of higher education
was singled out as the most
pressing problem to face the up-
oming Legislature by Represen
tative Carrol Howe as he spoke
to the Klamath Kalis Kiwanis Club
Thursday at the Winema Hotel.
Howe outlined four areas in
which the legislature will face its
biggest spending problems. Fore
most among these, he said, was
the need for more funds for high
er education to meet the tremen
dous growth in students.
The other three areas were itrm
:?ed as highways, welfare and ba
sic school support.
"Finding a seat." Howe said, is
going In be the bluest problem
facing students wanting to attend
collcce. He pointed out that the
big student bulge is now at the
sophomore level in high school
and that a means must be found
of providing more seats for stu
dents in college. Either this, he
said, or face the alternative thai
more youngsters who want college
educations will have to be turned
down.
He also indicated that the Gov
ernor's budget provides for an in
crease in the basic school support
spending ol from 1 49 milium for
the WM-6.1 birnniiim In $165 mil
lion for the lv1-ivi period. High
way spending, he said, will go
from a recommended bodaet of
over $211 million (or 1961-63 lo
'S2 million tor I!W.1-S
I Welfare also will lake a jump,
1 stated, advancing from it mil
lion for the current two-year pe
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Gaskins, executive secretary, han
dling the program.
Representatives from the Wine
ma, rremont, Modoc. Umpqua
and the Rogue National forests,
and from the BLM office in Med
ford outlined their sales plans to
the meeting of about 45 persons.
Later, Gaskins summed up the
presentations by pointing out that
the timber operators in the Klam
ath Basin needed a minimum of
Leaves
coast. Blanchard indicated he
would remain in Klamath Falls
and seek work in another field
Meanwhile, the purchasing of
supplies and equipment for Klam
ath County will be administered
by the county court until a re
placement is named to (ill the
vacated post. Commissioner Alli
son said.
Other duties of purchasing agent,
such as the distribution of surplus
foods to people on the county wel
fare rolls, will be performed
temporarily by James Watson, an
engineering aid in the Engineer's
Office, who assisted in that work
before the post of county purchas
ing agent was established this
riod to $105 million for the com
ing biennium.
Howe said he felt the Senate
would be more conservative than
the House during the coming ses
sion, but expressed confidence in
the ability of both Sen. Ben Musa.
proposed Senate president, and
Rep. Clarence Barton, speaker ol
the House.
"This session will have lo pass
some lax program." he said, "or
make drastic reductions in some
services of the state."
Asked later about such reduc
tions. Howe indicated he had
some specific reductions in mind
and felt this area slwuld be care-
fully explored along with the ad
ditional need for funds in other
arras
He indicated he did not think
that the Legislature would fol
low a recent suggestion and sub
mil a tax program to the people
lor a vote while it was in session
"This will not come about," be
said, adding. "Both Musa and
Barton feel we should pass a tax
program and go from there
Howe indicated (hat he opposed
sr.mc portions of (he Constitution
al Revision Committee' sugges
tions such as the abolishing of
the board of tontrol, the elec
tion of a comptroller to handle
the stale's finances and the ap
pointment of all judges. He added
that he felt it was fine for the
Governor to appoint the slate su
preme court judges, but he did not
feel tills way about circuit court
judges.
He 1m stated he did not fcc!
Outlined
Operators
250 million board feet of timber
per year. "This is a conserva
tive figure," he said, adding, "op
erators actually are eyeing a two-
year mill cut as the best answer."
He totaled the proposed sales
as being about 300 million board
feet, adding that some of this
might go to bidders in other areas
but that at least Basin lumber
men would be able to bid on
about that much timber during
the next year.
The 31(0 million was listed by
areas as 50.4 million from the
Crescent District, 101 million from
the Winema, 50 million from the
Deschutes. 30 million from the
Diamond Lake area of the Ump
qua, 22 million frpm the Modoc.
76 million from the Fremont, 2
million from the BLM Lakevicw
District, and 20 million from the
kBLM's Mcdfoitf District.
Blowdown sales were listed in
virtually all areas as a result of
forest damage in the October
storm.
Alex Smith, Winema Forest su
pervisor, opened the presentation
by pointing out that the cut in
the Winema has been increased
1.5 million as a result of re-invon-
lory studies. He listed 18 sales
of blowdown timber totaling
some 7.3 million board feet and
said that four have already been
cut and completed, three more
now in process of cutting and
three more ready lo be cut.
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anything would be gained by hav
ing annual sessions of the Legis
lature as long as there were no
elections in the interim to change
the complexion of the Legislature.
Possible taxes came in for com
ment from Howe who said he felt
a sales tax would not be passed,
but that a cigarette tax would be
approved and would raise about
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LEGISLATURE f REVIEWED Rep. Carrol How is shown standing at the speak,
r'l platform answering questions following a talk Thursday noon to tht Klamath
Falls Kiwanis Club. At lift, San. Harry Boivin listans intently. Boivin introduced
Howe who outlined soma views on what he felt would happen at the upcoming !
io4 of the state Legislature
Jan. 14
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 4. 1963
Military Pay Hike
Faces Revise Try
WASHINGTON (UPH-A dis
sent by AFL-CIO President
George Meany today foreshad
owed a probable attempt in Con
gress to revise Defense Secretary
Robert S. McNamara's proposal
for a $1.7 billion military pay in
crease.
Meany, a member of President
Kennedy's commission on federal
pay, doesn't like the idea of pro
viding a smaller percentage in
crease for draftees and first and
second year recruits than for
more experienced servicemen.
In general, however, McNama-
ra s proposal announced late
Thursday appeared to face smooth
sailing in Congress. It would be
the first military pay raise in
five years.
Predicts Fast Action
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, 1 S.C.,
whose House armed services sub-
committee will be first to consid
er the legislation, predicted "fast
action by Congress." He said the
raise was long overdue.
McNamara did not release his
detailed recommendations, but a
Defense Department source said
the raise for draftees and recruits
would be below 14.4 per cent aver
age for the services.
The department sought to con
centrate the biggest raises on
men who are making military
service a career, and who are not
near retirement age.
Land Trade
Said Sour
MEDFORD (UPK-Two private
parties involved in land exchanges
with the government said Thurs
day tlie government got the best
of both deals.
Robert Wells, secretary man
ager of the B and W Mining Co.
of Medford. said. "I would rather
have my land back. I could do
better with it today."
Paul Haviland, attorney for Ed
ward and Raymond Taylor of Tal
ent, said the government got
about one - half million dollars
worth of properly for less than
half the price.
The matter arose earlier tins
week when a government report
said private interests had reaped'
windfalls in two land exchanges
in Hie Rogue River Forest in 1960.
The General Accounting Office re
port said the government's ap
praisals were faulty.
$18 million over two years. He also
indicated that he felt something
would be done about the mer
chants inventory taxes and the net
receipts tax proposed by the Gov
ernor.
While he would not commit him
self as to what amount he felt
legislators should he paid, he ex
pressed the need for some sort
which gets underway with
robes
A recruit who starts at $78 a
month and gels $83.20 after four
months could get an increase of
$8 to $10 under the proposed
scales. A four-star general draw
ing $1,875 a month could get a
boost of $105.
Includes Reservists
In addition to boosting the pay
of the 2.6 million members of the
armed forces, the proposed legis
lation would provide small in
creases in part-time drill pay for
one million civil reservists and
more than 330,000 persons draw
big military retirement pay.
The proposal also would in
crease from $47.88 to $77.10 a
month the subsistence allowance
for officers. The higher rale al
ready is being paid to enlisted
men in off-opst areas.
Meany's views were disclosed
when the nine-man commission on
federal pay systems, headed by
former steel executive Clarence
B. Randall, released a report si
multaneously with the Pentagon
announcement.
Bank Bluffs
Holdup Man
PORTLAND (UPD-Couragcous
bank officials, a flustered lady
teller and a fire department frus
trated the efforts of a would-be
robber bluffing with a bottle of
shampoo he said was explosive in
an attempted bank hold-up here
Thursday.
Thomas Lcroy Sowcll, 45, Sa
lem, was arraigned on bank rob
bery charges.
Chief clerk Gary Pomeroy said
man entered the Parkrose
Branch of the Oregon Bank and
showed a bottle Willi a trigger de
vice attached. He said tlie bottle
contained nitroglycerin.
Pomeroy was ordered to close
the bank and open the vaults. In
a quick aside, assistant manager
Ken Shidcler told Mrs. Nancy
Henry to step on the alarm. She
did, but she stepped on the fire
alarm.
Acting on the robber's order.
Shidcler opened the door lo let
the robber out when customers
started pounding on tlie doors
from outside. As the man left
Shidcler slruck him from behind
and Fire Chief Ken Hickcy, whose
engines had answered the alarm,
confronted him with a monkey
wrench.
of salary adjustment, adding, "I
know of three very good legisla
tors who were unable to run again
because of the financial loss it
had cost them."
Howe was introduced by Sena
tor Harry Boivin who is the out
going president of the Senate
but is returning for another ses
sion of the legislature.
the first session on Monday,
Telephone
Defiance hi Katanga
Bunkeyo
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KATANGA
Klwil
LAST DITCH STAND Katanga President Tshomba
prepared a last ditch stand at Kolweii 121 against on
rushing UN forces after the capture of Jadotvilla 1 1 1 in
apparent defiance of U Thant's orders to hold ground.
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BUNCHE HEADS FOR CONGO U Thant, secretary
aeneral of the United Nations, talks with Ralph Bunche
before Bunche left today
aDDarent defiance of UN
Tho local command captured
to th contrary.
School District Plan
Proposed A t Meeting
The county school unit Thurs
day night came up wilh its first
unified view concerning a snlu-
ion fo tho common school prob-
ems in the three Mamatn coun
ty school districts.
The newly formed counly citi
zens committee labout 15 mem
bers I, with the backing of the
county school board, submitted a
iiiggeslion that a metropolitan
school district and a new county
school district might be formed.
The opinion was presented by
Cliff Robinson, superintendent of
the county school district, at the
joint meeting of the school boards
;issociation and the two Klamath
County citizens committees. The
meeting was held at 7:30 p.m. in
the Klamath Falls Administration
Building.
The city school boards have
for a long while been intcrcsled
in the county unit's view concern
ing a mutually agreeable solution
to the common school problems in
Klamath County. Last night's
recommendation was the first
concrete proposal from the county
school district.
The view was presented not as n
final solution to tlie problem, but
as a recommendation for study
by the school boards association
and the citizen committees.
Tlie metro unit would generally
consist of the city elementary dis
trict and the union high district
to Include tlie entire suburban arc a
that Is serviced by KUIIS. Some
31 Victims
Die In Crash
CAIyCUTTA. India (UPP - A
speeding mail train ploughed
head-on into a standing passenger
train early today about 200 miles
north of here, killing at least 31
and injuring 50.
Indian Railway Ministry officials
said five cars from the two trains
were overturned, and one of Ibem
burst into flames. The crash oc
curred between Kathiwar and Bar
auni. The Injured were laken to hos
pitals in Khagaria, the nearest
town, where residents donated
blankets and cots lo accommodate
Ihem.
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for the Congo to investigate
orders by the local command.
Jadotvilla despite UN orden
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boundary changes In the east
suburbs might be contemplated
and the Stewart Lenox and
Lakcshore areas would also prob
ably be included in the metro
district.
As Robinson put It, the view
was to make the city elementary I
district boundaries coterminous
with the KUIIS boundary.
This would In effect make one
school district a rural district
and the other an urban district.
Robinson said the move would
involve no economic, cultural or
recreational dislocations in tlie
areas Involved. He submitted that
the areas to be included in the
metro district are already a part
of Klamath Falls and tlie new
county unit district would remain
predominantly rural.
Buzz Waggoner, cily citizen
committee member, objected to
the formation of a metro district
on the basis thai the county would
lose better than half of their ele
mentary students, but lose very
little assessed valuation. "The
shift would not be very equitable
for the residents of the proposed
metro district, he said.
It was decided that the two cifi
zens committees would meet at
7:30 p.m. Jan. 9 in the adminis
tration building to discuss the
merits and objections to the for
mation of a metro unit.
Tlie committees will present
tlieir Findings lo the school boards
association at ILs next meeting
Jan. 10. a
In other business Thursday
night Paul Fairclo, county
school hoard chairman, was
elected vice chairman of the
school boards association.
Child Safety
Rules Given
PORTLAND (!PI) - The
FBI Issued an appeal to par
ent Wednesday In connection
with the slaying of a little
Portland girl last weekend.
The FBI said parents should
make sure their children know
these four rule!
Turn down gills from stran
ger. Refuse rides offered fcy
strangers.
Avoid dark and lonely
streets.
Know your local policeman.
N.RHOD.
EllsobeihvtlU -V ;
Weal her
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakevlew Fair through Saturday
with patchy fog in morning.. Cool
tonight with lows of 12 In Lower
Klamath Basin to 18 In Klamath
Falls. High Saturday 45. Week
end forecast Sunny and mild
weather with no precipitation.
Troops Aim
Final Blow
AfTshoni
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo
(UPI) United Nations troops
readied a final blow today at the
hopes of Katanga Province for
national independence and - Dr.
Ralph Bunche hurried from New
York to investigate apparent de
fiance of orders. . .
U.N. troops which seized JadoU-
ville Thursday organized a strike
toward Kolwezi, 100 miles away
southern Katanga, where Ka
tanga President Moise Tshombe
was reported preparing a final
stand.
Tshombe had his back to the
wall. Theie was evidence that his
financial and tribal support was
crumbling. His two-and-a-half year
battle to break Katanga away
from the rest of the Congo and
establish it as an independent na
tion appeared near an end.
Bunche, U.N. undersecretary for
political affairs, took off for Leo
poldville from New York Thurs
day night.
To Investigate Decision
Informed sources at U.N. head
quarters said he was sent to
investigate the decision of the lo
cal U.N. command to Capture
JadotviUe in defiance of orders
by Secretary General Tlinnt..
Thant implied in an ultimatum
to Tshombe Dec. 31 that the U.N.
forces would hold their ground
for twos weeks after the capture
of Ellsabethville to allow Tshom-
,b time to accept the U.N. plan
for unifying the Congo.
Instead U.N. trooiis drove to
.JadotviUe. 80 miles northwest of
Ellsabethville, and captured it.
U.N. officials In New York con
ceded this maneuver was "bril
liantly executed" and had high
praise for the forces in the field.
The announcement of Bundle's
departure said he was going to
Leopoldville to consult U.N. offi
cials on "present and future ac
tivities," Including "political, mil
itary and administrative mat
ters." Communications Down
But the United Nations also said
without explanation, that in the
JadotviUe operation there oc
curred for the first time "a
serious breakdown in effective
communication and coordination
between United Nations headquar
ters in New York and the Leo
poldville office."
"Steps are being taken to de
termine the cause of this lapse
and to ensure that it will not re
cur, uie statement said.
'All United Nations field mis
sions and operations are the re
sponsibility and are under the.
control of the secretary general
and there will be no exception to
this principle, in the Congo or
elsewhere." .
JFK Attends
Kerr Rites
PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) -President
Kennedy puts vacation
pleasures aside today for a sad
journey to Oklahoma to attendj
the funeral of Sen. Robert S.
Kerr. D-Okla.
The President was scheduled to
depart at 11:55 a.m. EST aboard
his Air Force jet transport for a
flight of about two and a half
hours to Oklahoma City. He will
return to Palm Beach after the
rites.
The White House announced
that Kennedy will meet at the
winter While House Saturday with
Secretary of State Dcm Rusk
and Thomas K. Finletler, U.S.
representative on the NATO coun
cil. They will discuss strains
within the Western alliance over
nuclear policy and other matters.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield was included In a small
official party accompanying the
President to Oklahoma. Sen.
George Smathers, D-Fla., said he
would be going along. Smathers
is secretary of the Senate Demo
cratic Conference but h a s said
he wants to abandon that Job and
concentrate on activities m the
Senala Finance Committee whera
Kerr had shown great Influence.
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