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LINE WOULD START HERE This view shows the Round Butte Dam which is under
construction on the Deschutes River near Madras. It will cost about $60 million and
should be completed sometime in 1964. The offer of PGE made to Bonneville Power
Administration Tuesday would contemplate a 500,000 volt intertie line beginning at
this dam and extending to the new PPL pover substation south of Klamath Falls.
In The J
Pay's lews j
By FRANK JENKINS
This is another day when
there's no doubt as to what's the
big news.
It's the black-balling of Brit
ain lor membership in the Euro
pcan Common Market.
You may ask:
What is this European Common
Market?
It's a trade organization com
posed of six Western European
countries West Germany. Italy,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Lux
embourg and Fiance. These six
countries joined some years ago
in a mutual trade agreement. It
was a FREE TRADE agreement.
They abolished TRADE frontiers.
In this "common" market, trade
flows as freely from one country
to another as from one Ameri
can STATE to another.
It has been IMMENSELY sue
ccsslul. It has brought to these
six countries prosperity such as
they had never even dreamed of
before.
Watching what has happened
in these six Common Market coun
tries, Britain came to the conclu
sion that she needed to join the
lodge. She is physically separated
liom them by a body of water
not much wider than San Francis
co Bay, if one measures from
north to south instead of from
cast to west.
So she applied for membership.
Her application was turned
down yesterday.
How.'
Each member of the Common
Market has a veto. When they
passed the box yesterday for the
voting. President Dc Gaulle of
France dropped in a BLACK mar
ble. The other five dropped in
while marbles.
That did it.
Britain was turned down for
membership in the Common Mar
ket. Why?
Nobody knnus for sure. But it
is suspected that another French
man got delusions of grandeur.
The French hove a habit of that
sort. Napoleon, of course, is the
shining example. It just could be
that Dc Gaulle wou d like to be
another Napoleon. In their per
sonality, the two have much in
common.
Some diplomats profess to be
iievc the French are starting a
long process of lessening U.S. and
British influence on the continent.
Willi the idea ol making France
lop dlig in Europe.
That was Napoleon's idea, too.
The big question:
WHY ARE WE CONCERNED?
We arc not necessarily con
cerned on Britain's account. Brit
ain can survive. She has her own
organization of states her com
monwealth, composed of former
-tfntish colonics. The British Com
monucalth has a sort of Common
Market of its own.
Tlie trouble is. as we see it.
that this is the FIIiST BliEAK
in the Western Alliance. As this
is written Old Kroosh hasn't been
heard from on the subject. But
you can safely bet jour bottom
dollar that he is rubbing his hands
and grinning from car to ear.
Another question unsKiken as
yet. hut in the minds of every
body: Wiil Dc Gaulle finally set oiei
on Kroosh' s side'.'
If? improbable hut you never
inn tell what a Fierclinidii with
delusions of grandcir will do .V
century and a half a,o. Nap-iico-ij
ar.d Alexander I o! Itussia t'"t;
to;ether on a raft ir, the middle
ol the iNiemen river at Tilsit and
for two weeks had the time of
their lhes riiuding up the worId(
and parceling It out between'
them.
These despots are dangerous.
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Elimination Of Teaching
Jobs Urged To Pare Cost
SALEM 'I'Pl'- Elimination of
99 new college teaching positions
,lo save $1.7 million was advo
lealed Tuesday by Legislative Fis
cal Olliccr Kenneth Bragg.
The proxsal would add 344 new
faculty members to the higher ed
ucation system by 1114-65. instead
of the 443 sought both by the gov
ernor and the Board of Higher
I Education.
I It would give the system a pro
portion of 17 students to one
teacher, instead of the Ifi.l to 1
ratio proposed in the governor's
budget.
Bragg said he doubted the qual
ity of higher education would be
Building Constitution
Of Future,' Says Sprague
SALEM iUPIi-"Wc are draw
ing a constitution for the next 100
years, not the past 100 years,"
former Gov. Charles A. Sprague
said Tuesday. J
Sprague, who served as gover-
nor from lli'W to 1!H3. addressed
the organizational meeting of the
joint Senate - House Constitutional
Iievision Committee.
He said of the proposed new
loiMitiition drafted by an interim
committee, "we provided a solid
foundation and a sturdy frame,
and allowed the legislature wide
latitude.
"We have adjusted ourselves to
Oregon's century-old constitution,
tl's like bvind in a crntiirv old
I house. It's bolter to build a new
I house than to remqlcl a room or
'construct an addition."
j He said there was rn partisan-
.ship in drafting the proposed new
idocumenl.
! Sprague explained the work of
the legislature is now more com-
iphcated than formerly He said
fallen he was governor the general
fund budget was $25 million, and
le compared that to the (405.3
Wo Sledding
Edict Given
No sk'ihng will lie allowed on
city streets, the Klamath Falls
Paiks and Recreation Depart
ment announced Wednesday.
"Tlie department had doMgnat
ed three unMi;rrisod areas on
whuh sledding will he allowed,"
Garv W nudum:, department direc
tor, said.
The areas, who h are maiked by
signs, are at Birth Street and El
dorado Avenue: on the we-t side
of tlie West Side Bypass across
from Conger ScIkoI and at Moore
Pa?k near tlie cncesvi(,n stand.
Tie Moore Park area will tie
lighted and will Ime a warming
tire frun 6 to 8 o'clock tonight.
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aulle's
impaired by the reduction.
He said this is particularly true
since tnere simply arc not
enough qualified teachers avail
able."
Bragg, who works for the legis
lature, spoke to the Ways and
Means subcommittee on educa
tion. Tile subcommittee is consid
ering the governor's proXsed &J1
million lor higher education in the
next biennium out of a total gen
eral fund budget of $404.1 million.
Two Years Ago
The 16.1 ratio was the standard
set two years ago for the current
biennium. In actual practice, how
ever, a student enrollment boom
million budget proposed for the
13-OTi biennium.
He said "we hac had a suc
cession of governors who asked
'give us relief.' " .
He lermcd "reallv suncrior the
judicial articles in the new con
stitution, and lauded "a number
of refinements."
Thursday the joint committee
w ill begin a section by section re
view of the proposed constitution.
14 Aboard
Plane Crash
NORFOLK. Va. U'PH-A Navy
plane with 14 persons aboard fell
into the Atlantic Ocean today and
;a Coast Guard rescue ship report
ed sighting bodies in the wreck
a,. No immediate trace of surviv
ors was found.
The plane crashed about 125
miles northeast of Cae Henry.
Va. Two life rafts and other de
bris were spotted earlier today by
Coast Guard aircraf and ships.
The Coast Guard culler Abse
eon reported to the raval air sta
tion here that bodies and wreck
age sere sighted but that no
signs' of lile were reported.
The Absecon and the suhmarinc
Carp were the first vessels to ar
rive at the scene.
Considerable debris was being
picked up in the area. The Abse
con reported picking up insula
tion from the interior of the
plane, a new Eieetra turbo-jet as
signed to antisubmarine patrol.
Tlie Carp retrieved magnetic air
detection gear from tlie rear of
the plane.
"Rut there has been no positive
sighting of bodies at this time,
the Absecon reported 45 minutes
i alter ftarting the search.
Portland General Electric Com
pany olfered Tuesday to build a
180-mile power intertie between
the Columbia Basin and California
lor use by both private utilities
and the Bonneville Power Admin
istration. The offer was contained in a
letter to Charles F. Luce, Bonne
ville Power administrator, in re
sponse to an invitation he had
addressed to all major utilities of
the region last November asking
for intertie proposals. Deadline
for receiving them is ncjt Thurs
day. Thomas W. Delzell, PGE board
chairman, said his company's pro
posal calls for a 500,000 volt al
ternating current line extending
from PGE's Round Butte hydro
electric project now under con
struction on the Deschutes River
near Madras, to a new Pacific
Power and Light Company substa
tion east of Klamath Kails.
The PPL interconnection would
be supplemented later by a tic
directly between PGE and Pacif
ic Gas and Electric Company
w hich proposes to construct a 500.
000 volt transmission line be
tween its Feather River plants
Design' For Europe Bg
raised tlie ratio to one teacher
for 17.6 students.
The governor and the Board of
Higher Education envision return
ing to the lower 16.1 to 1 ratio.
"The issue," said Bragg, "is
whether there is a direct relation
ship between . . . the qualily of
education . . . and the number of
students per teacher."
He praised a budget item call
ing for $43.000 for "institutional
research" on ways to improve the
management of higher education
and to increase coordination be
tween the academic and business
ides of the higher education sys
tem.
He said better management
would oien the way to increase
use of such new techniques as
educational or closed circuit tele
vision.
The problem is getting the pro
fessors to recognize a cliange ol
tins magnitude." he said.
Other Highlights
Local Sen. Alfred Corbctt. D
Portland. said Oregon's laws force
the legislature to go into "unnec
essary detail in local affairs." He
made the remark as he announced
he has agreed to co-sionsor a bill
to let Multnomah County employes
be paid every two weeks instead
of monthly.
Judiciary The Senate Judiciary
Committee agreed lo introduce 15
bills. One would add a third judge
in die Multnomah Department of
Domestic Relations, one would in
crease mileage allowances, and
another would increase circuit
judge salaries from ilO.jOO to
S13.500. The others were of a
housekeeping nature.
Constitution Former Gov.
Charles Sprague said a proposed
new constitution offers "a solid
foundation" for tlie next century.
Air Force
Frees Man
MOUNTAIN HOME. Idaho
il'PI 'Airman Geraia M. Ander
son. 25. was a Iree man today
after 10 months' imprisonment by
the Air Force for a double slay
ing another man had conlesscd.
Anderson was released at 4:30
p.m. Tuesday Irom the Mountain
Home AFB stockade shortly alter
the Air Force announced it was
dropping a double mardcr charge
against him.
The Air Force announced in
Washington. D.C. today it would
('isehaige Anderson soon because
of the "unusual circumstances"
surrounding his case. Rep. Ralph
Harding. D-ldaho, said.
Anderson had applied for a
hardship discharge.
The Air Force said it believed
Anderson was innocent of the
'tabbing Heaths here last April of
Mrs. Nancy Joy Johnson, 22, and
iher son, Danny, 2.
and the Oregon border.
In addition to its leg of the
line, PGE would install 300.000
KVA of substation capacity at
the Round Butte site and have
the interconnection facility ready
for operation by late Hkio, Delzeil
added.
The Bonneville Power Adminis
tration would be offered half the
transmission line's capacity so
that the government could ex
cliange power with California sys
tems units own account. The PGE
proposal also contemplates that
Bonneville or some other agenev
would construct a Columbia Riv-
er-Kound Butte leg of the tic line,
and would lease 50 per cent of its
capacity to the company. It was
suggested that origin of this line
would be at the John Dav dam-
site or Big Eddy near The Dalles.
Unit cost to tlie government for
leasing its share of the PGE line
would be set at a level no higher
than BPA would incur if it were
to build a line of its own, the
company official said.
Part of the PGE proposal would
prevent the intertie from bleed
ing Pacific Northwest firm power
supplies into California systems
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, Mttt
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OFFERS NEW CONCEPT French President Charles
de Gaulle Tuesday vetoed Britain' entrance info the
European Common Market and promulgated his own
"grand design" for Europe which includes close coopera
tion with Russian interests and exclusion of both Britain
and United Slates. UPI Telephoto
Break Seen In Soviet,
Red China Relations
WASHINGTON ( UPI i Defense
Secretary Robert S. McNamara
told Congress today there was in
creasing evidence that the Com
munist unity of Russia and Red
China had been "fractured per
has irreparably."
"Although wc may draw some
comfort Irom this failing out bc
twecen the Communist giants," he
said, "the world situation remains
lierilous, nevertheless."
McNamara made the assess
ment in his annual report to the
House Armed Services Committee
on the Matin of U.S. military
power. He presented the lW-page
summary at a closed session. A
censored version was made pub
lic by the committee.
Tlie defense secretary assured
the lawmakers the United Slates
was "fully capable" of destroy
ing key Soviet targets "even af
ter absorbing an initial surprise
attack. "
He said this country had about
djfl bomhers on 15-minulc ground
alert aMl more than 200 Atlas.
Dark Future Faced
By School Aid Plan
WASHINGTON UPH - The
prospects of President Kennedy's
big new sch'Tol aid oiogram have
been summed up in a single short
sentence: "II hasn't jot a prayer."
That assessment, Irom a con
gressional aide seasoned in past
selmol hill bailies, was widely
shared by lawmaker? alter their
first look at the President's mulli-billion-dollar
education plan Tues
day. The g'oomy oullook (or the leg
islation api'lied generally to the
form in wlmh it was sent lo
Congress: a single catch-all bill
enjoying a preference by virtue
of public status, whether or not
proposed regional preference leg
islation is passed by Congress.
Such legislation has been sought
as a prerequisite for federal in
tertie construction, but failed of
passage last year.
"We would propose that the
lease from PGE to BPA on the
capacity of the Round Buttc
Klamath Kails line would limit
transmission of power and ener
gy outside the slate of Oregon
only to that which is surplus to
the needs of all consumers in the
Pacific Northwest area," Dclzcll
said.
"We feel that this is a proper
protection for the region and
would be effective even if the
regional preference bill now be
fore Congress should fail of en
actment." Approximately a half-million kil
owatts of surplus BPA power
could be transmitted over its
share of the line.
PGE said its economic study
of Uic intertie indicated it would
pay out benelicially both to com-
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Titan and Minuleman missiles on
launchers along with 144 Polaris
missiles in submarines ready to
retaliate.
"Allowing (or losses from an
initial enemy attack and attrition
en route lo largo, he said,
we calculate that our forces to
day could still destroy the Soviet
Union without any help from the
deployed tactical air units or car
rier task forces or Thor or Jupi
Icr intcrmcdialc range ballistic
missiles."
McNamara said President Ken
nedy's recommended $53.7 billion
defense budget would strengthen
U.S. preparedness even more
while Russia and Red China
"struggle for power in the Com
munist camp."
He declared that "the deslruc
tion of freedom and free nations
is still the ultimate objective" of
both Communist xiwtrs, although
'each is seeking to altain the ob
jective in Its own way, and to
capture the spoils for itself." I
combining 24 new and old school
aid plans.
Parts of the Kennedy program
seemed sure to become caught
in the bitter congressional (ighl
between supporters of public and
parochial scliools.
The two sides lined up quickly.
The National Education Associa
tion heartily endorsed the hill; a
representative of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference said
it "had something for everybody,
everybody except those children
whose parents have elected lo
send them to private schools."
POSSIBLE TIE TO HERE The proposal of PGE to Bonneville envisions a power inter
tie line from the Round Butte Dam to this new PPL power substation adjacent to the
company's service center just off US 97 south of Klamath Falls. At present, these
lines carry 230,000 volts of power. Ron Spani, assistant power superintendent, is
shown here with substation network in background.
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French Veto Denies British
Entrance
By PHIL NEWSOM
I PI Foreign News Analyst
For good or evil. President
Charles dc Gaulle has seized the
initiative in Europe.
And by power of the veto he
already is exerting the "third
force" he foresees for a new
Europe of his own grand design.
with both British and United
Slates influence reduced to zero.
The Dc Gaulle concejit calls for
a Europe stabilized and dominat
ed by France and Germany work
ing in close collaboration, and
living in co-existence with the So
viet Union. The leadership would
he French. France, not the Unit
ed Slalcs, would be Europe's
siiokesman in Moscow.
There was gloom Tuesday In
Brussels where France's five
partners in the European Com
mon Market were forced against
Iheir will to accept De Gaulle's
determination that Britain be ex
cluded from the European com
munity.
And there was gloom in Urn-
don where Prime Minister Har
old Macmillan's covernmcnl
faced the unpleasant truth that 15
months of negotiations to enter
tlie Common Market had failed
and loll them with no alternative.
Faces Great Ptoblems
For the Western alliance, its
unity shaken as it had not been
since the end of World War II.
there also were massive prob
lems.
Policies which had been key
stones for nearly 20 years seemed
about to be changed, new alli
ances about lo lie formed.
For in a world of power poll
tics, Dc Gaulle was determined
to forge his own power bloc and
devil take the hindmost.
What makes De Gaulle?
From Paris, UPI correspondent
Joseph W. Grigg reported:
"Dc Gaulle never has made
any secret of his 'grand design.'
Plane Crash
Kills Eight
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPH-A
Continental Airlines Viscount
crashed and exploded in flames
Tuesday night while attempting to
land at tlie downtown municipal
airport. All five passengers and
three crew members were killed.
The crash was Inc first fatal
accident involving a commercial
airliner in the history of the air
port and of Continental. An earl
ier Continental crash, which
killed 45 persons, was blamed on
a bomb.
The 11.1 million, four-engine
Viscount crashed into a dike on
Ihe south side of the airport, near
the partially frozen junction of
tlie Missouri and Kaw rivers. Wit
ness said the plane, which can
carry 59 passengers, broke Into
pieces and burst into flames. The
wreckage burned fot almost an
hour.
Tlie bodies nf the victims, all
hul three lound inside the wreck
age, were taken to an airport
hangar.
TU 0-8111 No. 7051
pmam.
To Common
It Is a Europe which stretches
Irom the Urals to the Atlantic,
independent of any outside direc
tion or tutelage, particularly from
the United Stales.
"It is a very long-term vision
one he certainly docs not expect
to come about this year or next
or perhaps even for five or 10
years. But he is convinced that
sooner or later the Soviets will
break with lied China and turn
lo the West. When Ihcy do, he
wanta to be ready to negotiate!
with them.
It is indeed a long-term vision,
for De Gaulle is 73 and he has
but three more years left in of
fice.
As De Gaulle has pressed his
own nuclear and European poli
cies, tlie rift he has opened in
Western unity has been compared
Rain Freezes On Snow
As Winter Chills State
PORTLAND (UPD - Freezing
rain fell on top of packed snow
today as Western Oregon reeled
under the winter's worst weather.
A howling east wind piled snow-
drilts up lo four feet deep in the
Portland area.
Freezing rain was reported this
morning at Salem, Albany, Eu
gene and Astoria and was fore
cast for Portland.
Slate police said Interstate 5
(Highway ttOi was haaurdous all
tlie way to tlie California border.
Portland school officials
changed their mind early today
and kept schools closed as the
new filorm front piled from 2 to
4 more inclies of snow on tlie city
All Salem public schools were
closed as were tliose In jnany
other areas.
A silver thaw was reported in
Lincoln County and schools there
and those in Tillamook County
shut down.
Eastern Oregon lilt
The snow spread east of the
Casi-ades with Klamath Falls,
lakeview and Redmond getting
tlie most amounts. Baker had a
low of 7 below at 4 a.m.
Eugene and Salem reported
alxiut 4 Inches of new snow over'
night. Medford had some rain
Tuesday night with icy conditions
this morning. The weather man
Snow Removal
Aid Requested
Motorists have been requested
to keep their cars off Main, Klam
ath and Pine streets alter m I d-
night tonight in order that snow
clearance can proceed unham
lered, according to Police Chief
Charlie Howard.
Cars should not be parked on
any of these three streets from
Second Street to the underpasses
on both Esplanade and Main
Street between midnight and 6
a m., Howard Indicated.
Weather
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakeview Mostly cloudy with pe
rVI of snow or freezing rain
tonight and Thursday. Wind be
coming westerly 10 to 20 m.p.h.
Little change In temperatures.
Lows tonight 15-20. Highs Thurs
day 30.
in importance with the split be
tween the Soviet Union and Red
China.
As indignation cooicd down to
the simmering point it was pos
sible that the rift might prove
neither so deep nor so important
as it now seemed.
Sees No Hann
De Gaulle was described as
confident that neither tlie Com-,
mon Market nor the Western al
liance would suffer. French
sources also pointed out that Brit
ain ban from the Common Mar
ket need not be permanent.
UPI correspondent Karol Thal
er reported from London:
'De Gaulle is seen here as a
statesman driven by an almost
Napoleonic ambition and deter
mination to align Europe under
French leadership."
said tlie moist, warmer air over
running the colder drier air would
result in "quite a bit- of snow,"
turning to freezing rain and later
to plain rain.
Rain was forecast west of the
Cascades Thursday with a thaw
ing out expected. The live day
outlook was for heavy amounts of
precipitation from three to flva
inches in Western Oregon.
Mountain passes got heavy
amounts of snow which brought
smiles to ski resort owners.
A house fire at Grosham Tues
day night claimed the life of Mrs.
Mildred DarnMIe, 46. East winds
of 40 mph and freezing tempera
tures hampered firefighters.
Foir persons were injured In
Portland sledding accidents Tues
day.
Negro Plans
To Return
JACKSON, Miss. (UPI)-James
II. Meredith, 29, said today he has
decided to return to the University
of Mississippi for tlie spring
semester.
The Negro, whose entrance Into
the university last fall was greet
ed by rioting which left two dear
and hundreds injured, made his
announcement at a news confer
ence here.
"Many things have taken place
in recent months and I see signs
that give me hope that I will be
able to go to school in the future
tinder adequate, If not Ideal, con
ditions," Meredith said.
His decision came a few days
after he had completed his aca
demic work for his first semester
of study at the previously all-
white university.
Meredith skipped one bf his final
examinations and has been report
ed in deep scholastic difficulty, but
his grades have not yet been re
vealed.