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COSP. la The- Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelake a n d Lakevlew Increasing cloudiness tonight and Tuesday with light rain or snow flurries possible Tuesday, Variable winds 7-15 nt.p.b. Low tonight 23, high Tues day near 40. Day's News Weather High ytmmay Lew Uil mailt High yur tgn Law year 190 Hifh patt 14 ytart Low Htt M year Prtcip. past 14 Iwgrt Snc Jan. I ftamt period tail ytar n u (ifsi 14 (IHS) .M M 1.41 U.Or ORE.LIBUXI By FRANK JENKINS From Moscow this morning: At least 99 per cent of the So viet Union's electorate turned out yesterday to choose new regional and local parliaments. ( In the old er world, including the Soviet Un ion, they call their law-making bodies parliaments. In the U.S.A.; we call our national law-making body the congress and our statei law-making bodies legislatures.) The big question: WHO WON? You'll be surprised. THE COMMUNISTS WON. Price Ten Cents 12 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGOV. MONDAY, AURCH 4. 196J 'telephone TU 4-KIII No. 7079 udget tut First Say Republicans It's quite simple. The Communist ticket was the ONLY ticket. A wonderful victory? The answer, of course, is ES. But There was a cloud on the hori zon. The cloud was no bigger than a man's hand. But it was there, nevertheless. Moscow radio re ports this morning that at yester day's election "at least 99 per cent of the Soviet Union's elector ate turned out to vote." But, it adds, "The last time Ihe Soviet Union voted (last spring! the government announced that 99 95 per cent of the eligible voters turned out and cast ballots." Communism is SLIPPING. Why the slippage? Moscow radio explains it thus: "What prevented 100 per cent backing for the single ticket was ILLNESS, a handful of invalidat ed ballots or, in rare instances. SOME VOTERS WHO WROTE IN NAMES OF THEIR OWN CAN DIDATES." Thai's BAD. It indicates that in the U.S.S.R. there are some vot ersonly a "handful" of them to be sure who are so fed up with communism that they are willing to take all the risks that are in volved in writing in a choice of their own. The Moscow dispatch adds: "Since (in Communist Russia) there is no contest for any of the seats, interest centers on the size of the turnout at the polls. The Communist hierarchy consid ers the showing on election day (including the turnout at the polls' a GAUGE OF SUPPORT (or the regime." What of the slippage? To be sure, it is very slight. But let's go back to the little cloud that was repotted to Elijah (1 Kings: 18) by his servant as "a little cloud, out of the sea, like a man's hand." But "It came to pass in the mean while that the heaven was black with clouds and wind and there was a GREAT RAIN." The Communist hierarchy better look a little out. Sub-Station Operating The fire department sub-station at Shasta Way and Mitchell Street started operation today, March 4, City Manacer Bob Kyle, reported. but the official open house isn't slated until later in the spring. Fire calls must still be made to the main station, TU 4-3222 and if the fire is in the sub-station's jurisdiction the call will be re layed automatically. A crew of six men are stationed at the sub-station working on three men shifts. Plans are to increase the manpower at a later date. Some landscaping work is yet to be completed along with some interior decorating. The cost of the building was approximately $40,000. Senate Committee Requests Ban On Railroad Mergers WASHINGTON ' L'PI - The Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee said today railroad mergers should be banned until Congress formulates an over-all transportation policy. The two Republican members of the subcommittee dissented, say ing the matter should be left to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion (ICC. The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Estes Kefauver. D-Tenn.. held extensive hearings last year on the subject. Kefauver intro duced a bill last week to hold up major mergers until 19M pendirg further study by Congress. Democrats Philip A. Hart, Mich.. Thomas J. Dodd. Conn., and Edward V. Long. Mo , also signed the majority report which warned that proposed mergers e! large Eastern lines might be the first step toward a nationwide railroad monopoly. mm, wwSr'S.'-. .. ,--2w EXPRESSES VIEWS Sen. Barry Goldwater (shown in file photol believes President Kennedy is a victim of "indecision" and that the Republicans can oust tha New Frontier from the White House in 1964. UPI Telephoto Goldwater Says JFK Indecision Victim; Sees Defeat In 1964 (EDITOR'S NOTE: Republi can loaders put Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona high on their list of potential rivals to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller for the 1984 GOP presidential nom ination. As a result, UPI asked the senator about a wide range of current issues, including the political outlook, Cuba, Red China and the nuclear threat. The Interview follows.) By WILLIAM THEIS and JOHN A. GOLDSMITH WASHINGTON (UPD - Sen. Barry Goldwater believes Presi dent Kennedy is a victim of "in decision" and that the Republi cans can oust the New Frontier from the White House in 1964. The Arizona jet pilot, whose political prestige is soaring among GOP conservatives, also says his party's 1964 presidential nomination still is "up for grabs." Goldwater gave this assessment! of the current political scene in an exclusive interview with Unit ed Press International. Touchin; a wide variety of subjects, both domestic and foreign, the sena tor: Said Communist China may explode a nuclear bomb any day now. But he said Peking's "rick shaw" economy could take 25 years to build a delivery system and fashion a nuclear strike force. Ruled himself out as a vice presidential candidate. Goldwater! said it would be "ruinous" to! have a presidential candidate! pushing liberal causes while he was attacking them. Said $7 to $10 billion could be cut from President Kennedy's, proposed budget without touching space or defense efforts. But re alistically, he said, the economies will not be made because the Senate will restore House cuts. Complained that administra tion defense planners are trying to substitute the President's ci vilian authority for necessary tactical and strategic judgments of experienced military leaders. 'That is the big mistake Hit ler got into the Kaiser got into," the senator said. Reserve Air General Goldwater, a reserve Air Force major general, was almost en gulfed in plane models he tries to get a model of each plane he Senate Republican Leader Ever ett M. Dirksen. 111., and Roman L. Hruska, R-Neb., said in a mi nority report that the ICC shoul'l be free to make its own deter minalion on rail mergers unde- existing law. They said the subcommittee's recommendation was "inappropri ate" and "the complex problems that alfect the railroad industry" should be left to the House and Senate Commerce Committees. Kefauver's group said the ICC did not have k.ie facilities or au thority to deal properly with the problem. The ICC now has under consideration proposals lor sever al large mergers, including a marriage of the New York Cen tral and the Pennsylvania. The Interstate Commerce Act should be strengthened to include !posilive antitrust safeguards which must be met. the subcommittee said. It aaxl Congress should instruct v is-' - . flies as he sat at his desk and attacked the methods and goals of Kennedy admmist ration de fense planning. The administration is consider ing deiense strategy, he said talks about freedom for the President to select the weapons that can t be done. Goldwater said Pentagon plan ners are operating on the as-i umption Uiat U.S. forces, in anv brush-fire war, would have to abandon conventional arms in fa vor oi a uiu nuclear cxeliangc as soon as cither side used nuclear arms. I don't believe either side wants to go into nuclear war. . . but we don't leave ourselves anv room for negotiation or pause," Goldwater said. oome smalt nuclear weapons are better for a given job than TNT weapons, he said, and il isn't -necessarily true that their use would result automatically in all-out nuclear conflict. "At any time you could pausel and say: The next step may be an attack on one of your airfield; with this kind of a weapon,' " he said. t tninK we are engaged in unilateral disarmament," Gold water said. "If Russia has been kept at bay it lias been because of the men of the Strategic Air Command. As their role is di minished by the substitution of missiles for planes he said, U.S strength is downgraded as against Russia's. Ahead In Some Fields In some technical fields the Russians "are probably ahead of us," the senator said. One of these, he said, may be sophisti cated radar for judging height and distinguishing between true and decoy warheads. If this the case, he said, the Russians might be closer to having anti-ICBM missile than has been disclosed. "This alone might be cause for our seeming willingness to give away everything in order to reach a nuclear test ban agree ment with Russia, he said. Q What about the risk thati Red China and other countries! will develop nuclear bombs com pared with Uie risKS inherent in a test agreement? A "I think Red China can set (Continued on Page 4) the ICC to make a thorough in vestigation of the merger issue, including a depth study of the railroads' "poverty plea." The ICC should report its findings to Congress, the report said. "There are certain lonR-rangc questions to be resolved," it said Will a move toward monopoly power of the size and scope of the New York Central-Pennsyl vania merger be only a first step in a series of additional mergers and consolidations which will eventually lead to the exercise of a railroad system controlled bv private interests and regulated by a regulatory body which may be come subservient to those inter ests?" The Kefauver report said that the ICC did not have enough ex perienced examiners to get all the facts a'.xxit proposed mergers and did not have an adequate policy on mergers. Disarm Talk Hears End Of Debate GENEVA (IPD-The Western powers today apparently failed to budge the Soviet Union from its rigid position on the nuclear test ban issue in an informal closed door debate at the 17-nation D s armament Conference. Sources said U. S. Ambassador Charles C. Stelle pressed the So viets to depart from their hard ened line on the question of on- site inspections and to get down o serious negotiations. Asked if anything had happened at the three-hour session, Soviet delegate Sermon K. Tsarapkin said: "Nothine." Although delegates from the Western delegations refused tu comment on the debate, they con firmed the test ban issue was the subject of the "free-for-all" dis cussion. The informal session was pro posed last week by Arthur Lall of India in an effort to depart from the regular pattern of set speeches by the different sides. Regular debate on the test ban issue is to resume Wednesday. The conference is deadlocked on the question of how many .on-site inspections are necessary and ob servers predict little progress in the coming weeks. The sources said, however, the United States and Britain will pre sent a new nuclear test ban treaty to the conference sometime next month. Chief U.S. negotiator Wil liam C. Foster is expected to present a draft of the treaty "just before or just alter Easier, tht sources said. The treaty-how' is being " pre pared in Washington. The Geneva talks recess for Easter from April 11-25. Avalanche Threatens Hunt For Missing Trio OURAY, Colo. (UPI) Search- ers were set to brave a second avalanche today to search for a minister and two of his daughters buried beneath 100 feet of snow. The minister and the two girls were entombed in the snow Sun day when an avalanche swept their automobile off Hie highway in(o a gorge 100 feet below. The snow filled the gorge level with the highway after the slide. It was feared they would be found dead. Ouray County Sheriff Gene Brown said powerful mine-detecting gear was due on the scene shortly after dawn to try to locate the minister's automobile. Stuck In Snowdrift There's plenty more snow sit ting up there," Sheriff Brown said. "We'll run a hasty search early before the ( highw ay I patrol de cides to shoot it and cover the pass." The search for Rev. Marvin Russell Hudson. 40, and his daugh ters, Pauline, 11, and Amelia, 17, was halted late Sunday when port able mine detectors and pole probes proved inadequate. A witness to the avalanche. snowplow driver Leo Janes, said he had just cleared the highway through Red Mountain Pass when the minister's car became stuck in a snowdrift. The minister was in the process of putting chains on a tire when a wall of snow rumbled down tliei Tutors Express Position On Aid PORTLAND I L'PI i - Delegates at the Northwest Conference of the Department of Classroom Teachers Saturday pansed a rcso lution (or federal supiwrt of local education on a "no striags at tached" basis. The delegates from Oregon. Washington, Idaho. Montana. Wyoming and Alaska took tlic ac tion at tiw close of the two-day conference. They also passed resolutions urging repeal of obsolete laws. establishment of a human riht- Icommission and a clear statement urging instruction on communim. AM y.SS" r?CfV fk, - .-, " ""Ski: Ak xx i niwi-wit miMnr mm hi in uriif Vffimiiiiimi in mtotihmSmmmwmwmmal&mmWmmm (.UMMIIItl: MtAKINijS As bills ot wide interest are heard in tho state legisla ture committees, attendance at these hearings hai grown. Audience that came to listen to House Judiciary Committee's session on bills week overflowed into corridor where folding chairs and Court Upholds Railroads In Featherbed Argument WASHINGTON (UPD The Su preme Court ruled today that the nation's railroads have the right to eliminate featherbedding. The decision affects workers in five union brotherhoods who have threatened to strike if the changes are made. A spokesman for the National Railway Labor Conference said manaeement'-would-- move as promptly as possible" to put the work rule changes into elfcct. We hope the railroad labor mountain and swept Hudson and the car off the road and into the 100-foot ravine. Hudson was travelling from Ou ray to Silverton to lead his weekly church service at the Silverlon community church, officers said Taught High School The two daughters accompanied him regularly to the service. During the week Hudson taught at the Silverton high school, offi cers said. Mrs. Mary Hudson told a neigh bor Sunday night she was "re solved they're gone." Earlier, sheriff's officers said it was un likely any of them survived but! they would continue "until all hope is exhausted." Ihree other children were at home Sunday. They were David, 16. Marie. 14, and Ruth, 12. Bus Skids Into River NEW YORK (UPI I - A bus loaded with an estimated 30 hos pital employes skidded oft of a pier and plunged into the East River today. Police said first reports indi cated at least five of them were killed. The river moves so fast at the point where Hie bus plunged in that 30 minutta after the acci dent rescue units were not able lo find it. The bus plunged into 33 feet of water on tlie Queens side of Wcl fare Island. Witnesses said it sank so fast the persons did not have time to get the doors open be- for it was' submerged. Rescue squads from the fire de partment and police rushed to the scene. Two police helicopters hov ered overhead, and the Coast Guard sent a cutter and three smaller rescue boats. The bus was a school bus type of vehicle ojierated by the city Hospital Department. Welfare Island is a hospital complex. The bus was part of a shuttle service ihal transported employes to ()ueens on on side of the island and Manhattan on tha other. unions now give dclinife assur ance" that they will negotiate tu bring the dispute lo a prompt conclusion, he said. In a brief unsigned opinion, the high court upheld a ruling of last Nov. 28 by the 7th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. It means that after routine moves. the railroads legally can go ahead with operating rule changes de signed to eliminate unnecessary work known as featherbedding. The five railroad brotherhoods appealed the lower court decision, asking the Supreme Court to hold hearings on the case. Court Ruling Upheld But today's unsigned opinion said the only question to be de cided was whether the lower tri bunals were correct in deciding that the parties had "exhausted the procedures provided by the Railway Labor Act for major dis putes such as that involved here." The Supreme Court said the lower courts were right on this. Communism Study Seen In Schools SALEM (UPD - The Slate Board of Education Is exctcd to approve Wednesday the option al teaching of communism lo Ore gon high school seniors. The text would be a new teach ing guide "Understanding the Na ture of Communism," prepared jointly by the Department of Ed ucation and the Parkrose public schools. A board announcement said that alter "extensive examination and evaluation by interested persons and organizations," the guide was revised and prepared for publica tion. The course was recommended by Su;i intendent of Public In struction Leon Mincar shortly alt er he took office in 1061. It will be a six-week course and local school boards will decide wliethei' llieir scliools will adopt it. The theory behind the course is tliat students will be better able to cope with communism if uicy know what it's all about. Some scltuols already are teaching it. "After more experience on this delicate problem," Dr. Minear said, "the Board of Education may make it a required course." It has been endorsed by the American Legion, the American Bar Association and the National Education Association. The book let is expected lo reach scliools before the end of the present school year. It will complement a recently approved publication on tha workings of a democracy. concerning sex offenders last loudspeakers were set up. UPI Telephoto Justin; Arthur ,1. Goldberg, for mer labor secretary, did not par licipaie in today's opinion. Today's (culhci'bedding decision came as a slight surprise inas much as the cutirt lutd heard no arguments on the appeal by the five unions. During the piiK-ecdings. Louis J. Wagner, president of the Or der of Railway Conductors and Ui akemcii, siiiil that ' the i" unions "will have no alternative" but to strike if the changes eventually materialize. Kennedy Could Act Before a strike takes place, President Kennedy would appoint an emergency fact-finding board. This would delay any strike ac tion for anuther 60 days. The unions represent about 200,- 000 conductors, switchmen and other employes whu work on trains. They brought the lawsuit on tlie claim that tlie carriers were violating (he Railway Laborl Act by their proposals. I'he unsigned Supreme Court opinion said that both parties had exhausted all legal procedures in the long dispute and "are rele gated lo self-help" in adjusting it. Under the new rules, about 13,- 000 firemen displaced by the dio- sel locomotive would be dismissed and 25.000 other jobs would lie abolished over five years. The pay structure would be revised to raise about 150,000 salaries. Court Mulls Strike Move IILLI.F.TIN SAN FRANCISCO (UI'D-U.S. District Judge StanU') A. Wi-lg.-l today vacated a temporary re straining onlrr preventing a ktrlkc against tlie Southern I'ai-tltc Rail road Umn agreement of the rom- pariy arid Hie HrothrrhiMril of Rail way Clerks In continue nt-gutM- IIUII9, The order said Ihal the brother- lioofl strike threat was withdrawn subject to renewal on 72 hours notice SAN FRANCISCO (LTD - The U. S. District Court was expected lo take under consideration today a ietilion by the Brolherhood of Railway clerks to invalidate a re straining order which prevented a strike against Southern Pacifu Railroad. SP, lurgest railroad in the West, obtained the restraining or der in San Maleo County Supc rior Court last week a few hours licfore a scheduled walkoul hv 11k- 11.000-memlier union. The broth erhood filed a petition Friday ask ing tile federal court to lake Juris diction in the matter. Sii)erior Judge James T. O'Kcefc set March 8 for a hearing on the anlislrike injunction, but union officials were seeking to break the order so they can call a walkout Immediately, Tax Cut Chances ' mmour WASHINGTON (UPD - House Republicans said today tliat with out a $10 billion to $15 billion cut in President Kennedy's budget re quest chances lor the admimstra- lon's tax cut "will be almost nil." GOP members of the House Ap propriations Conunittee outlined at a news conference savings they said could be effective with out harm to the cconomv or to tlie national deiense. Among other steps they said new federal hiring should be Uni ted: pending pay raises for fed era! workers absorbed within igcncy budgets; new government programs deterred, and a "con iderable portion" of . proposed new construction, bolli military ind civil, delayed. They said these and other econ omy moves ,should make it pos sible for Congress to cut $10 bil lion to $15 billion from the Ken nedy's request for new appro priations tor the 12 months start ing July 1. "We believe that if such reduc tions are not achieved," said Rep, Frank T. How . It-Ohio, chairman of a special Republican economy lask lorce, the chances of con gressional approval of a tax cut :il this session will be almost nil." Rep. Ben F. Jensen. R-Iowa. senior GOP member of the Ap propriations Committee, said he appointed the lask force about a month ago alter studying the President's record $!I8.8 billion spending budget for the new year and found it "completely out of line." The latest Republican assault came as a follow-up to an earl ier blow by w hich other GOP law makers forced temporary aban donment of Kannedy's drive for I , j ' J 'J IMP (" ) :i- I Si Vr-K j I fc-at or t.-s.iW BLOODLESS COUP Tho armed forces, in a bloodless coup in Peru, ousted Gen. Ricerdo Perei Godoy (bottom) as head of the military junta and replaced him with Gen, Nicolas Lindley Itopl, No. 2 man in the military govern ment. Perei Godoy quit after a 24-hour government Crisis. There was Mo violence. UPI Telephoto Peru Stays Ca Following LIMA, Peru (LTD Peru was calm today following a bloodless coup by the armed forces that ousted nuhtaiy junta President lticardo I'cnn Godoy as a would be dictator. The coup Sunday morning was led by Ptrei Godoy's three junta colleagues, who renewed the junta pledge to return tlie nalion to civilian rule after piesldentlal elections in June. Gen. Nicolas Lindley Lopez, 54. an outspoken mill-Communist re garded as a friend of the United States, look over as new Junta president under the law of suc cession established by the Junta when it assumed power last June, Perez Godoy remained at his liome In suburban Miraflnres Sun day night, apparently under house if tufmBls'Sf quick legislation to head off a scheduled $3 billion drop in the ceiling of the natHn;il debt. In winning a dclav of three weeks or so, the GOP called on the administration to look for ways to spend less in an effort to hold the debt under a lowered $305 billion limit scheduled to take effect April 1. The one-two fiscal punch from tlie Republican lawmakers ap peared to presage even mora trouble for the President later this year when ho will sock a Itirtlier increase in the legal debt 'eilingMrom $308 billion to about $320 billion while at the samo time pressing Congress to cut taxes by $10 billion. David Rockefeller, president of Chase National Manhattan Bank and brotlier of New York's Re publican governor, said Sunday he doubted that more than $4 bil lion to $5 billion could bo cut from Kennedy's budget. Rockoteller, in a television in terview (Meet the Press NBC), said he did not think the pro posed tax cut could be complete ly oifset by budget reductions without seriously impairing tho services lo tlie country." Democrats generally were in clined to pooh-pooh tlie Republi can economy drive, chalking it up lo politics and smart public re lations and expressing doubts it would amount to much. Privately, however, some Dem ocrats were concerned at tho Democratic image the Repub licans were striving lo build. These Democrats think a tax cut is essential, and tliat big gov ernment is here to stay whether Republicans or Dcmocrals arc in power. But they weren't sure this point was getting over too well to tlie average voter. : Coup arrest. He told newsmen he had not resigned the presidency. But he Indicated no desire to try to reverse the junta's decision. The peaceful turnover followed a night of tension at the presi dential palace as Perez Godoy appal ently refused to leave until it became clear he could not count significant support from any sector of the armed forces. Ho left the palace at 8 a.m.. accompanied by his wife and an aide, and was driven home. As lie entered the house he shouted "Long live Peru." A platoon of 32 rangers armed with submachine guns and wear ing combat fatigues was waiting on the lawn outside of the palace when he left, apparently ready to arrest him If he continued to op pose tha ouster.