Living Cost
Dips Sharply
In December
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The cost
of living registered its sharpest
monthly dip in four years in De
cember, mainly because of lower
food prices. But cold weather is
expected to send food costs up
again this month.
This ws reported today by Rob
ert J. Myers, deputy commission
er of the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics. He said the December
drop of two-tentlis of 1 per cent
was the greatest monthly decline
since 1938 in the department's
consumer price index.
Myers said the December de
cline was twice as sharp as the
usual drop for the month. This
trimmed the price index to 105.8
per cent of the 1957-59 average
both for December and for the
year as a whole.
The commissioner said the hard
freezes, particularly in the South
and the Southwest, were expected
to cause a "substantial jump"
food prices during January.
Ho indicated this meant the
over-all cost of living probably
would rise about two-tenths of 1
per cent or back to the November
level of 106 per cent.
Food prices fell six-tenths of 1
per cent in December. This was
due largely to substantial reduc
tions in prices of fresh fruits
poultry and pork before effects of
harsh freezes were felt.
Oranges dropped 13.5 per cent
because of earlier prospect for
good production. Myers said they
now are expected to rise sharply
because of recent severe freezes
in Florida.
The over-all price index last
month was thrcc-tenlhs of 1 per
cent below the all-time high
reached last September. The food
price section, at 103,5, was 1.2 per
cent below the September peak
but 1.5 per cent higher than in
December, 1961.
Myers said in this connection
that the United States "has had
rather substantial success in deal
ing with inflation." He said U.S.
prices had risen only 4.6 per cent
over the past four calendar years
ami only 13 per cent since 1953.
By contrast, he said, prices rose
43 er cent in France, 3D per cent
in Britain, 28 per cent in Japan,
Z'l per cent in both Italy and In
dia, 17 per cent in Germany, and
13 per cent in Canada.
Prices of items other than food
were unchanged in December.
Spendable earnings for tile av
erage factory worker rose to a
now high in Decemlier with small
iiKTea-sos in both tlic nianufactur
ing work week and average hour
ly earnings contributing to the
gain.
The Meekly lake-home pay for
a factory worker with three de
pendents was WR.72, up from the
previous September high ol silfi .45
A single worker took home $79.02,
compared with $78.7d In Seplcm-lier.
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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore.
Sunday, January 27, 1963
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Refugees From Cuba Cry For Joy At Freedom
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WRECKAGE CHECKED Firemen and Air Force officials probe the wreckage of
an Air Fores F84 fiqhter iet after it crashed in Tampa, Fla., Thursday. The pilot, 1st
Lt. Robert L. Harlan of Tampa, parachuted to safety before the plane fell in a res
idential aree. Three civilians suffered minor injuries. UPI Telephoto
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Navy Information Team
Visits Oretech Jan. 30
College men interested in ob
laining commissions in the field of
Naval Aviation will have an op
portunity to talk with mem
bers of the Aviator Information
team from Seattle's Naval Air
Station at Oregon Technical Insti
tute on Jan. 30.
The team members will tell
students how they may gain com
missions as naval aviators
through the Naval Aviation Cad
ct INAVCADI and the Aviation
Officer Candidate (AOCI. pilot or
non-pilot, training programs
They will also counsel young men
on other military programs and
service obligations.
The Naval Aviation Cadet pro-
cram is own to young men 18
to 25 years of age who have at
least 90 quarter-hours or 60 sc-mostcr-hnurs
of college work.
The Aviation Officer Candidate
program is open to college grad-Navv.
Basin Briefs
FOItT KI.AMATll
MRS. JOANNA TAYLOR has re.
turned from l.akevicw whore she
f)cnl the Christmas and New
Year holidays with relatives and
remained for an extended visit.
VUI.M It II. MKSCOCK was
luoimht lionie .Inn. 17 from Mod
lord by his uite and son. Lynn.
He had been a patient at Sacred
llr.'irt Hospital since Jan. 4 and
underwent ni;iur spinal surgery
Jan. 7. Although he is making sal-
i(ndoi-y progress, it will lie sev
eral weeks More he is able to re
sume work at Crater Lake Na
MONDAY
ORDER OF RAINBOW GIRLS.
No. 57, 7:30 p.m., regular meet
ing, Scottish Rite Temple.
EWAUNA TOASTMISTRESS,
7:30 p.m., meeting, Winema Ho
tel.
GREAT HOOKS DISCUS
SION GROUP, 7:30 p.m., "No
vum Orgamim," city library.
CD A, NO. 1295, 6:30 p.m.. an
nual potluck dinner. Sacred Heart
Parish Hall. Husbands or escorts
only.
KLAMATH COUNTY DAIRY
WIVES, 12 noon, no hast lunch-
con, Willard Hotel.
TUESDAY
BUTTE VALLEY FARM CKN-
TER, 8 p.m., meeting, Macdoel
School. Bring pic.
WEDNESDAY
AAUW ARTS GROUP. 10 a m..
home of Mrs. Frank Johnson, l!IUi
Manzanita.
Court Records
DISTRICT COURT
TRAFFIC
Jan. 11, Mil
Rntiert Frtwfrt Hull, no vehicle litenw
lnl. oultlv nlfln. IS line peid.
Berle Eldred Stephen!, duobeyed Hop
Ian. auillv plee. SIS line paid.
Monlv Joe Buckler, violate bailc rule,
aulllv Blea. I7S line paid.
ueraid wevne jeiup- imp.wv "
turn, guilty plea. 110 line paid.
Freddie Lea Chanel, tenure in urivv
rlort tide ol highway, guilty plea, SIO
Letter William Keluchlt. dlobved
Iralllc ilgnel. guilty plea. SID line paid.
Arlle Junior Ayen, violate pane ruiv,
SIS Una paid.
Orvllle fcdward vaugnn, improper ngni
turn, guilty plea, SIO tine paid.
Joteph Romao Marcon Jr.. eicet'tve
motor noise, guilty plea, SIS Una paid.
MISDIMKANORS
Heroin Brown, whoe true name K
Howard Brown, hunting prohibited hour,
trial without ury. Found not ouilty
John Doe. whoe true name 11 tin-
known, petit lan-nv. rtimi-.d on mn-
hon by district attorney, cer nai been
recovered.
BRLONteS
John One. whoe Hue name I unknown,
laklnq and UMng automobile willmul
authority, dHmued on motion bv di
Irlcl attorney. Car hai ben recovered
John Doe, wrwwe true name i un
derlet atiomev. car h been recovered, hire being dialled into the Army
John Doe. wm i'ii Mm .;K pmn iivec bv the V. (
uales between 19 and 2f years
of age. This program covers pilot:
training, non-pilot training (navi
gator, bombardier, radar inter-'
pretcri. aviation ground officer
and air-intelligence.
Cadets are commissioned alter,
successfully completing 18 months
of flight training at Pcnsacola,
Fla, College graduate!' receive
(heir commissions after the lirsl
four months of pre-llight training.
Lon II. Winn Jr.. CSC, local
Navy recruiter, said the team
will be available in the Student
Union Snack Bar between 9 a.m.!
and 3 p.m. Flight aptitude tests
will be given at 6 p.m. for those
interested in qualifying. Tests
may also be taken during the day, I
if desired. There is no obliga
tion in taking these tests. "Those
who qualify may take the physi
cal in Seattle at a later date.
Transportation is furnished by the
PORT EVERGLADES. F I a.
lUPD A shipload ol 1,170 refu
gees from Communist Cuba ar
rived Friday, seasick and
somber until their new freedom
took hold. Then they cried and
sighed for joy and were sped to
reunions with loved ones.
"I'm free at last!" sobbed the
wife of a ransomed Cuban inva
sion prisoner as she embraced
him at a mass reunion in Miami,
where the refugees were taken in
buses after debarking from the
cargo ship Shirley Lykes.
"I'm just so happy to be back
in this wonderful democratic coun
try and to be out of Cuba that
I can't help myself," cried En
rique Torres, 62. as he and his
wife went through health and im
migration processing at dockside.
Tears streamed down the old
man's face.
Stories (if Hardship
As they streamed off the black
hulled freighter and prepared to
board a line of buses waiting to
take them 20 miles south to Mi
ami, the refugees told more stor
ies of hardships, terror and anti
Castroism in Cuba.
It was the biggest single group
of exiles released by Fidel Castro
from his Communist island, and
brought to more than 3.400 the
number of refugees who have
come here since the ransoming
of 1,113 Cuban invasion prisoners
before Christmas.
Most of the refugees aboard the
495-loot Shirley Lykes were rela
tives of the invaders.
Seventeen of the passengers
were ambulance cases, and these
were first off the vessel.
The other exiles were unsmil
ing as they streamed down three
gangplanks. But inside the proc
essing, center and boarding the
buses lor Miami their spirits
changed, and at the stadium in
Miami there was a wildly emo
tional scene as relatives broke
from a waiting crowd of some
4.000 to embrace long-separated
loved ones as they stepped from
the buses.
Children See Father
"Poppy," shouted three children
of invasion brigade member Ro
lando Jimenez in unison as they
bounded off a bus with their moth
er and spotted their father in the
crowd.
Jimenez, one of the brigade
members helping control the wel
coming throng as he waited for
his family, had not seen his wife
and children for over a year. He
grabbed his 5-year-old daughter,
hoisted her to his shoulders and
walked off with his arms around
his wife and two sons.
The refugees left behind them
ail their wordly belongings except
what each of them could carry
in one small suitcase.
"Thank God! Thank God!" said
one elderly woman boarding the
495-foot freighter in Havana Thurs
day, as she knelt to embrace four
of her grandsons.
'No," said a member of the
Cuban Red Cross at the head of
the gangway. "Thank Fidel Cas
tro."
Red Cross, immigration, health
and other federal authorities wait
ed to process the refugees debark
ing from the ship, put them on
buses and speed them 20 miles
south to Miami, where a mass
welcome awaited them in the city
baseball stadium.
Another Flight Scheduled
A Pan American World Airways
DC6B was to fly another load of
prisoner ransom supplies to Ha
vana, and return sometime in the
afternoon with about 100 more
refugees.
It was the fourth such flight
in the past two weeks.
The refugees coming to Florida
increased to about 3,200 the
total number permitted to leave
Cuba since just before Christmas
when Castro released the 1.113
captives of the abortive 19fil in
vasion in exchange for $53 million
in ransom goods.
The Shirley Lykes left Havana
shortly alter 7 p.m. Thursday,
carrying in its five cargo areas
390 men, 527 women and 253 chil
dren. Among the refugees were 17
ailing persons, 13 of them on
stretchers.
The captain said there was no
evidence of communicable disease
among the passengers.
Also among the refugees were
some 200 "hardship cases," most
ly aged and infirm people unable
to get adequate medical attention
in Cuba.
The bulk of the Cubans, how
ever, were allowed to leave as
relatives of the invasion captives.
They lined up at dockside in Ha
vana early Thursday morning,
waiting to board the new $10 mil
lion ship.
Red Cross Team Aboard
A 15-man Red Cross team was
aboard the vessel to help the ref
ugees in the crossing. A plane
took cots and blankets to Cuba to
accommodate the refugees on the
ship when it was announced by
the Swiss Embassy in Havana,
which handles U.S. affairs in Cu
ba, that arrangements had been
made to transport the load n
exiles.
The Shirley Lykes, donated to
the Red Cross by an association
of steamshiD lines to carry a load
of ransom goods to Cuba, sailed
(or Havana a week aso carryine
some 7,000 tons of medical sup
plies and foodstuffs.
The exodus of exiles from Cuba
started Dec. 23-24 with the re
lease of the invasion prisoners,
who were flown to Florida. On
Dec. 27. the vessel African Pilot
returned from the first sea-borne
ransom run to Cuba, carrying 922
invaders' relatives.
In the oast two weeks, three
planeloads of Cubans and Cuban-
Americans, totaling about 275 peo
ple, have arrived from Cuba.
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LARRY BELL
Pvt. Iirry lU'll. win of Mr, and
Mrs. John Boll of Merrill is nnw
stall iuiichI at Kort Monmouth, N .1..
follow inj Uaic trainmu ;tl Fort
Old. Odd.
Hell is a Merrill High .Vliool
p;ulu;1r ;md a VMW cradiuilc of
Oregon Technical Institute. He-
MUNICIPAL COURT
Jan, 11. mi
Unrla Jnvf David, fliiofrtfftv
torlfil
rh.tiM Mnnri Jr. drunk. tSQ
lioiial Park as heavy equipment w '
operator.
lr u nam
iWd on motion fcy
Cf hn fov-
hnown. ..wteny.
t1itrtct Morrtv
John VCm. nO WW nnm it
Urctny bv tt (HmKM on moi-m'
trict Mornty. Lr ni wrn .
tovf rti
inrtn floe, wtio inj nrr n nn
hnnwm. Urrtny. rtumnr on motion nv
dutrtct ttorny. Car na Mfn rKOvdro
tonrtuCt.
Or 10 fir
Lawrence Uadiation I
Iv.
ah at Borke-
MHS. AintKtl K. I'KKZF.H
lolt this week for a visit with
friends in Medford tendinc repair
ol t ho Keeer home which was
damaged extensively by fire on
Jan 17, Keeer is doing the neces
sary work, and I he Cattle Cross
ing Cafe operated hv the Keepers
will be closed toniirarily Their
daughter. Mar go. a student at
Chiloquin School, is staying with
Mrs. Myrtle Copland durum Mrs
Keezer's absence in Medtoid
U II lit It WALK Kit of Merrill
was here last week doing ranch
work for Ira F. Orcm And son
for u-tiom he is year round hand
here and at Merrill Handlers
the valley have taken advantage
of the unprecedented dry season
to burn off grass in meadow- pas.
tures and do ranch chores which
they are normally unable to do
until late spring when the snow
leaves and the fields are dry
This is the first time in the memo
lies of old-timer that theie has
liecn no miow on the ground and
grass was burned tn pastuies in
late January.
N.ttlKf Hnort drtinh. l? .OfO.I
KrnnHh T. Johnon. drunk, 7S fir Ov
fir 10 dayl
Gflritd Lh Harvtll, dm", 7 tv
Mv or 10 CV
UfO Paint. OavH. Cl'un. ;i or nvr nr
10 dav
Caoron Lvi n. dru". n or ni or
10 ft
Raymond Jtihxnn. drunk, tn or nve or
i flay
L'"1a LOrM Wfrrltt. drunk. 1 or dv
' 10 day
Clayton Srhu'U. d'im, H icv'inl
On The Record
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pital Jan. 2 Qf grurtfl ibi , n
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ron Hatfy in Klamaln V!ly Hospital
Jn 74 a Qrl wmahino I M , J i fll
HEWITT- Rom 'o Vf, and Vr Paul
Hewitt m Kiamam Vav Hmp.tal Jtn
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B0rl; a Girl, II
Donald H Allen, son of Yancey
11 Allen. Iikeiew, nnently was
promoted to sergeant in (.ermany
where he is a niemlxT ot the With
Artillery in Hanau, (iermany !
Sut . Allen, a meiruVr oi the1
art iller 's Headquarters Battery
in Hanau. entered the Ainu m
Vi 2 and served in Kmea Ivfote
uiiving in Kuroe in June, VMW.
on this tour ot duty.
The sergeant attendivl Mettlord
High School
Marine Pic Italph l Switt. son
ol Mi. and Mrs Charles H Switt
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of 3 1 IK Crosby Avenue, returned
w ith other memljers of "D" Com
pany, Third Marine Itegimcnt,
Third Marine Division recently to
Okinaua alter 10 weeks ol train-
ing at Fuji Maneuver Area. .la-
pan.
The 10 weeks ennsisled ot live
liruiK exercises and cold wealher
tiauiins climaxed by a three-day
reimcntal-size field problem held
at the base of historical Mount
Fujiyama.
Army Pfc. Jam K. Hicks. 21,
whose wile, .lennett. lives at 38(12
AlUimont Drive, was assigned to
Headquarters Battery of the 2ilh
Artillery (iroup at Fort Laulnn, '
Wash., Jan. 14.
llick enteriHl tlic Army in Oc
tober, 'M2, and was last stationed
at Fort Old. I'alil., where he re
ceived basic training
Army 2nd l.t Jerry I. Hiam-
well. 2.1. son ol Mr. and Mrs.
Franklin It. Mraniwell, 4i I it Cros
by Avenue, will parturiate with
illier memliers of the 4th Inl.intry
Division in F.xercise Timber
1 .mo, a mill - February maneuver
in an uiHleveloiKxl Alaskan wil
derness area.
For tile cold uoatlier Irainum
exercise, the division will be
joined by Canadian Army units.
Alaskan I S. military forces and
l .S Strike Command units Alxmt
H.iioo nu-n will take tvtrt in (lie
exercise.
Lt. Bratimell. lite diieition ol
liter in Mattery H of the dni
skhi's 2mll Artilleiy at Fort l.cw-
is. Wash , entered tlie Army in
January. I'.ik!.
The lii-uteiiaiit is a hi.'u prad
uale ol Klamalh C n i o n lliph
shIukiI aihl a 11 raduale ot
Oregon Stale Cniversity. Corval
lis. He is a memlitsr oi Alpha
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Diane. hes m Tacom.i. Wasli.
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l.ieulenant Brandt received in
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