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By FRANK JENKINS
From San Francisco:
Forty-five city health inspec
tors and rodent control special
ists began a house-by-house and
boat-by-boat rat hunt in the Ma
rina yesterday.
The hunt netted one lone ro
denta gray Norway rat found
drowned in the lagoon of the Pal
ace of Fine Arts.
Isolated and unexplained, that
little item sounds a bit silly,
doesn't it? But wait a minute
The drive was ordered after a
rat was discovered DEAD OF
THE BUBONIC PLAGUE at Scott
and Beach streets in the citv hv
the Great Bay where ships come
from all over the world. Rats
are carriers of bubonic Dlaeue
Hie dreaded Black Death that
killed 60 million people during
the Middle Ages.
This is the point:
. If ONE plague-infested rat got
loose from a ship, MORE RATS
might have got loose from the
ship. San Francisco has to know
. Hence the rat hunt.
Here's how bubonic plague
spreads:
A rat ... or a ground squirrel
. . . or other rodent . . . gels the
disease. A flea bites the rat and
takes a nip of its infected blood.
The flea then BITES A PERSON
and the person gets the plague.
If you kill all the fleas, the
spread of the, plague will be
stopped and it will die out. But
It's easier to kill the rats.
That's the job San Francisco
Is tackling.
A thought:
Iif spite of all the tommyrot
we read in the news, the world
is getting better. There was a
time when this bubonic plague
incident could have prostrated
the world with fear. And with
good reason. As late as the 130O's.
a form of bubonic plague known
as the Black Death destroyed one
fourth of the entire population of
Europe.
Many of us can remember the
great flu epidemic that followed
World War I. It was a PANDEM
IC, or world epidemic. In 1918
and 1919, it spread first through-l
out Europe, and from Europe it
spread to America.
It was grim enough, goodness
knows. At its height, 'the world
was dark with fear. No one knew
in the morning who might be
stricken by night. But the flu
epidemic of that period was a
mere incident when compared
with the Black Death of 500 years
before.
Another thought:
In a much milder way, AUTO
MATION is spreading fear among
us. What will it do to our jobs?
Well, if the scientists could con
quer the Biack Death, they can
eventually change automation
from a job-destroying monster to
a friend of man.
Give them time.
Soviets Say
Troops Leave
MOSCOW UPI - The Soviet
Union admitted today it is with
drawing Russian Iroops sent to
Cuba to prepare Premier Fidel
Castro's forces against "any in
trigues of imperialist aggres
sors." The official Communist parl
newspaper Pravda said in a dis
patch from Havana that four So
viet ships had left with soldiers
by last Sunday. The dispatch,
dated March 10, said a fifth ship,
the Nakhivmov, had arrived in
Havana to remove further Rus
sian units.
The Pravda statement was the
first admission by the Soviet
Union that it was removing troops
from Cuba, although reports in
the West had indicated a with
drawal was being made.
The Soviet people had been
given no prior indication that a
troop pullout was even contem
plated. The Iroops were sent to
Cuba before, during and alter last
October's Cuban crisis between
Russia and the United States.
The Pravda statement was cou
pled with a renewed threat of
war in the event of any United
States aggression against Castro's
regime.
The statement quoted a depart
ing Soviet colonel as saying Rus
sian troops in Cuba were deter
mined to fight side-by-side with
"their Cuban brothers" to tlx;
"last drop of their blood" during
the Cuban crisis. It said troops
had moved into positions along the
Cuban coast in October when
war was just around the corner."
Pravda did not specify how
many troops had been withdrawn
or would be withdrawn at this
t.me. It gave no figures on the
number of sokliers in Cuba or
how many would remain.
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Reds Claim
Ships Shot
At Fishers
MOSCOW (UPD - The Soviet
Union charged today that a group
of three' United States Navy war
ships fired on a Soviet fishing
trawler with dummy warheads
about 70 miles east of Norfolk
Va', five days ago.
The charge was made in a note
to the United States published to
night in the government newspa
per Izvestia. The newspaper said
the note was handed to the State
Department in Washington Tues-
day.
(In Washington, the State De
partment acknowledged that "we
received this note Tuesday from
the Soviet embassy." A spokes
man added, "We are investigat
ing as we always do when we re
ceive such charges.")
The note said the incident took
place March 8, last Friday.
It said the ships involved were
two "Boston" type cruisers and
one Franks" type destroyer.
The Izvestia version of the note
said the American ships ap
proached within five miles of the,
Soviet vessel, which was identi
fied as SRTR 9007, and fired two
volleys from their guns, using
dummy warheads.
It said the volleys landed ap
proximately 130 meters (426 feet)
from the Soviet vessel, which the
Russians claimed was fishing in
the open sea.
The note said the first volleys
were fired at 12:15 p.m., but did
not specify what time was being1
used. The American ships (thcn
moved to within one kilometer
(slightly more than half a mile)
from the Soviet vessel and fired
two more dummy warhead vol
leys that landed 00 meters from
the trawler, the note claimed.
"By such actions American
warships endangered the Soviet
trawler and its crew," the notcl
said. "The Soviet government
looks upon the shooting at Me
fishing trawler of the Soviet
Union by American Navy ships
as a rude violation of generally
accepted norms of international
law, of principles of freedom of
navigation on the open sea and
as an act of arbitrary rule which
can lead to serious consequences.
"The Soviet government slates
to the American government its
protest connected with the above
stated provocate actions of
American warships and expects
that those guilty will be punished
and that necessary measures will
be undertaken not to allow such
actions in future."
The note made no mention, in
the version published here, of re
cent American charges that Cu
ban fighter planes had fired at an
American-owned shrimp boat.
Western observers believed the
Soviets might have chosen to
publicize the alleged firing on a
Soviet trawler as a counter-prop
aganda move.
VISITOR Mrs. U. S. Savings Bond, Emily Terrall, St. Helens, center, was in Klam.
ath Falls Tuesday to promote the sle of U.S. Savings Bonds in a nationwide campaign.
At left is Mike Shannon, manager of the First National Bank, South Sixth Street
Branch, who served as Klamath County Savings Bond chairman for several years and,
right, Mrs. Virginia McGaughey, Klamath Falls candidate for Mrs! Oregon, who was
present for the luncheon meeting in the Pelican Party Room. Mrs. Terrall and George
W. Mimnaugh. Oregon director of !he Savings Bond Division, United States Tree...
ury Department, Portland, both spoke.
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MODEL DEPICTS PROPOSED HOSPITAL Bob Starbuck. left, engineer, and his
partner John Howard, architect, both of Morrison, Howard and Starbuck, apply soma
finishing touches on a model of the proposed Intercommunity Hospital which will be
unveiled during the kiclcoff fund raising campaign dinner tonight at the Winema Motor,
Hotel. The fund drive committee is endeavoring to raise $725,000 to provide the
county's part for the construction of the proposed hospital. The remaining money to
construct the $2.6 million dollar hospital will come from federal government funds.
Hospital Fund Drive Opens
With Kiclcoff Dinner Here
The initial all-county effort to
raise $725,000 for the construc
tion of the proposed 141-bed In
tercommunity Hospital in Klam
ath Falls gets started with a
kickoff dinner featuring six guest
Constitution Revision
Gets New lease On Life
SALEM (UPH - There was a
new surge of life today in a pro
posed new constitution for Ore
gon. It grew out of two developments
Tuesday:
The House Committee on Con
stitutional Revision voted to press
ahead in an effort to send a pack
age to the floors of the House
and Senate.
An anti-revision plea from the
Oregon State Grange met with;
some round rebuttal.
The kay action came when
Chairman John Dcllenback, R-
Medford. called the committee to
gether and gave it a mid-session
alternative: Step up action on the
document or forget it for this
session.
The committee voted unani
mously to go ahead.
The consensus of members was
that the likeliest product for floor
action would be a compromise be
tween the present and proposed
constitutions.
Controversial sections of the
new one, the committee indicated.
might be sent out separately to
stand or fall on their own.
Dcllenback said the committee
decided that none of its differ
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speakers, 6:30 tonight at the Wi
nema Motor Hotel.
More than 260 reservations had
been received for the no-host din
ner as of early this morning but
the total is expected to approach
ences so far w ith the Senate com
mittee were too critical to be re
solved. A few hours later, the House
and Senate committees met to
continue joint hearings, this time
on the controversial executive ar
ticle.
Strong criticism came from
Clarence Brooks of the Grange,
who said his organization opposed
making the governor the only
elective officer.
'The Grange is not ready to
surrender the people's right to
choose their officials," he said.-
He said the secretary of state
and treasurer should remain elec
tive. Senate Committee Chairman
Waller Pearson reported,. "There
is nothing done by these two that
couldn't be done by anyone," and
added that the change would
make the governor more respon
sible. Sen. Ted Hallock, D-Portland,
questioned whether Brooks was
speaking for all the Grange
members.
The developments came a few
days after Senate President Ben
Musa attended a joint meeting of
the committees.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON.
300 before this evening, accord
ing to Dave Hanaman, develop
ment director of the hospital
board.
A preliminary phase of the fund
drive has been underway since
early this year under the director
ship of James F. Stilwell, cam
paign general chairman, and his
associates. Stilwell's commilte?
has sought financial support from
local industry and businesses and
the degree of their success will
be the subject of a report by
Milwell during the overall kick
off drive tonight.
Five speakers, other than Stil
well, will comment on the devel
opment of the hospital program
and the vital part that the new-
institution will play in the future
of the Klamath Basin.
Rev. Robert Groves, First Prcs
bytcrian Church, will talk on the
lu'story of the local hospital
movement and is to be followed
by Dr. George Nicholson, who
will discuss the proposed hospi
tal from a medical point of view.
The value of the institution to
the entire Klamath Basin will be
the topic of William D. Ganger
of Tulelake.
Gail J3rotherhood, Klamath Un
ion High School student and par
ticipant in the state oratorical
contest for the past several years,
will represent the youth of the
county in discussing the hospital
as a vital instrument in further
ing the growth and development
of the county.
Dr. Charles M. McGill. modi
cal director of the Weyerhaeuser
Timber Company, Tacoma, Wash
will congratulate the residents of
the county for their part in
striving to establish a new hospi
tai in tne area.
George Callison, manager of
the Klamath County Chamber of
Commerce, is to emcee the pro
gram which will feature the un-
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Rail Peace
Hopes Fade
CHICAGO (UPIi-Tlie nation's
railroads and five rail unions re
sumed battle across the negoti
ating table today in their long
standing "feathcrbedding" dis
pute.
The fight between the railroads
and five on-train brotherhood:
over job-c u 1 1 i n g work rules
changes could wind up in a crip
pling nationwide rail strike.
Even though hopes for an early
settlement appeared dim, it ap
peared likely that the quarrel
would be dumped on the White
House doorstep before strike
stage is reached.
The railroads had an edge
last week's Supreme Court ruling
that they have the right to put
into effect work rules changes
which would eventually eliminate
up to 80.0110 jobs. The roads In
sist they need these new work
rules to eliminate "featherbed
ding" their term for work
which is not performed or is not
needed.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 13, 1963
St
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JFK Sees
Dire Future
If Opposed
WASHINGTON (UPll - Presi-
dent Kennedy said today the
American economy could turn
downward if Congress gives the
"wrong answer" to his proposals
to cut taxes and increase the
federal budget and national debt.
He called upon businessmen and
others who are opposed to his
economic program to "accept the
lads of life of our economy" and
help meet problems of this decade
caused by a lagging economic
growth, increased labor market
and automation.
"I do not speak as a partisan,"
Kennedy emphasized in remarks
to a meeting of the Advertising
Councjl here.
The errors of a Republican
administration and a Democratic
Congress during these crucial
years have been acknowledged by
members of both parties," he
said.
The President referred to the
years 1957-1960 "which produced
two recessions from which the
economy never wholly recovered
He said the economic history of
that period "clearly wains us
now that the wrong answer" to
the economic proposals he has
made would spell downturn loi
the American economy as a
whole.
Major questions which Congress
must decide, lie said, involve the
limit on the national debt, the
size of the federal budget and the
desirability and extent of federal
tax reduction.
He warned that "an unrealistic
debt ceiling or budget cut today1
would lead to a slowdown in de
fense contracts, a stretch-out in
federal payments,, cash drain on
business, "and ultimately another
recession.
Boards Study
School Plan
The details of tfie gerrymander
plan for the division of the coun
ty into two school districts to
solve some of the county's school
problems will be discussed at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13,
in the city administration build
ing. The Joint School Boards Assoc!
iliou unanimously adopted t h c
plan at its Feb. 28 meeting and
will be hammering out some of
the details tonight.
One of the details that needs
further clarification is a plan for
the division of assets between the
boards because of the boundary
changes.
At the last meeting, Superin
tendent of County Schools Cliff
Robinson said agreement on some
of these smaller items should be
easy since the three boards fi
nally were able to come together
on a solution to the overriding
problem.
Gas Survey
Completed
California Pacific Utilities Com
pany announced today that It had
completed the line survey in the
north section and the Pelican City
area and will extend their high
pressure natural gas line to serve
industrial and commercial firms
as well as the residential section
in this vicinity.
Materials have been ordered and
construction is expected to begin
in approximately 30 days. This
is the first step in the company's
$400,000 expaasion program for
I!3, according to E, Mullis, dis
trict manager.
He said that it is the company's
primary objective to expand Its
facilities and service as rapidly as
possible to enable many more res
idential, commercial and indus
trial firms in this area to enjoy the
economy and convenience of nat
ural gas.
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RAMONA SOTO
Legislature
Klamath Indian Queen
Miss Indian America, Ramona
Soto of Klamath Falls, lovely
young memlier of the Klamath
Tribe whoso Indian nnmo is 01-
sombumwas, is to lie honored by
the state of Oregon in Salem Tues
day and Wednesday, March 19-20.
Arrangements for her several
public appearances arc being
made by State Sen. and Mrs.
Harry Boivin.
Miss Soto's trip to Salem is
sponsored by the Herald and
News, and she will be accom
panied by Ruth King of the Her
ald and News staff.
Ramona, now attending Sheri
dan College in Sheridan, Wyo., is
to give the Lord's Prayer in the
Indian sign language at the morn
ing session of the Senate, March
19, and will repeat the impres
sive prayer before the House of
Representatives the following day.
She will he introduced to Gov.
Mark O. Hatfield on Tuesduy
when a group of young people
from the Warm Springs Reserva
tion will be present, will attend n
tea during the afternoon as an
honored guest, will visit the
Chemawa Indian School and will
lie an overnight guest of Secre
tary of State and Mrs. Howell Ap
pling during her stay in the state
capital.
Luncheons, a dinner and a
press conference are also being
arranged for her.
Since she was named Miss In
dian America last August, the
young woman, daughter of Mrs.
I'lorinda Soto and Joseph Soto,
and sister of Elnathan Davis, all
of this city, has made numerous
public appearances.
She came to Klamath Falls
this week from the Iloopa In
dian Reservation in California and
is scheduled to appear at the All
American Indian basketball Tour
nament at Chiloquin on her re
turn from Salem. She will leave
early in April for three weeks in
New York state and in Oklahoma,
continuing to tell the story of her
licoplc and her goul, to study
law for a professional career to
aid the Indians.
She graduated from Klamath
Union High School in 1962 and won
a scholarship when appointed to
Iter national honor. She is an
accomplished pianist, has been an
official hostess at the five-day In
dian Arts Festival at La Grande
and was honored by the Klam
ath Basin lust fall at a reception
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in the First Presbyterian Church.
She was sponsored at Sheridan
by the Klamath Reservation Jay-
cces who continue to be interested
ill her accomplishments. She com
poled wilh beautiful girls of 12
tribes.
Mrs. June Poitras, a Klamath,
now living in Portland, has been
invited to participate in Ramona's
appearances.
Tax Return
Bill Ready
SALK.M (UPI) - The House1
Tax Committee Tuesday night
completed work on a "one shot
$11 to $12.5 million revenue bill
which would require employers to
make withholding tax payments
monthly instead of quarterly.
l no accomplishment was a
turning point in the 13 legisla
ture. It was the first revenue
measure to be completed during
the session.
When the final amendment was
made to the hill (HB1076I, Chair
man Richard Eymann, D-Mar
cola, asked the committee to hold
it for release in a package with
other revenue measures being con
sideied.
Kingsley Job
Added To Bill
Congressman Al Ullman anl
Senators Wayne Morse and Maur
inc Neuberger announced today
that the administration has in
cluded $213,()(o for Kingsley Field
in Klamath County In its military
construction bill.
The request has the approval
of the Bureau of tho Budget and
now must go before both the
Armed Services and Appropria
tions committees for approval.
If tlic Kingsley Field appropri
ation is approved it will go for
construction of operation mainte
nance and medical facilities, Ull
man and the two senators ex
pressed pleasure that tho admin
istration la recognizing the needs
at Kingsley.
Weill her
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakevlew Increasing cloudiness
tonight with few showers of rain
or snow late tonight and Thurs
day. Not so cold tonight. Low 22.
High Thursday near 42.
Thousands
Flee East
High Water
By United Press International
Violent thunderstorms raked Uie
flooded Southland today and a
blustery March storm dumped
heavy snow across Nebraska and
Iowa. Thousands were homeless.
The death toll mounted.
An airline pilot reported a tor
nado near Indianapolis, Ind., dur
ing the night. Warnings of severe
thunderstorms, damaging winds
and hail were posted alone an
80-mile-widc swath deep into the
Heart ot Ohio.
Soaking rains across the South
sent rivers and creeks spilling
from their banks. More than 30,
000 persons fled the rising waters
in the Virginias, Kentucky, Ten
nessee and Alabama Tuesday.
Trains Stranded
Three Southern Railroad passen
ger trains were stranded in east
Tennessee by flood waters and
muds slides during the night.
A tornado ripped through two
small south-central Alabama com
munities late Tuesday, damaging
buildings. No injuries were report
ed. The twister came at the tail '
end of a rash of tornadoes that
swept through the South Monday
and earlier Tuesday, killing at
least live and leaving millions of
dollars of property damage be
hind.
A federal task force was due in
eastern Kentucky today to survey
llood damage termed the worst in
the depressed area's history.
President Kennedy was expected
to name 20 Kentucky counties as
major disaster areas.
Rip Houses Apart
The Appalachian floods ripped
houses apart, swept cars into
swollen streams, uprooted trees
and covered highways with tons
of mud.
The Cumberland and Guyan-
dottc, the Tug and Tennessee, Big
Sandy and Sequatchie were just
a few of the rampaging rivers
which caused millions of dollars
of damage across the flood belt.
At least 13 deaths were attrib
uted to torrential rains, floods
and near-blizzard snowstorms
Tuesday. Five persons died in
West Virginia alone, three suffer,
ing heart attacks while battling
surging flood waters. A family of
four drowned when their home
was swept into the Sequatchie
River near Jasper, Tenn.
Kansas, Alabama, Kentucky and
Virginia reported one death each
Tuesday. Three persons were
missing and presumed drowned in
a canoe accident on the swollen
Jackson River near Covington,
Va.
Painter Held
For Slaying
LAKEVIEW-Robcrt Lee O'Con
nor, 26, itinerant painter, was
arraigned in the district court
of Judge Richard Moffct Wednes
day morning on a reduced charge
of second degree murder in the
death of Mrs. Theresa Arzncr,
64, Lakevicw.
O'Connor, apprehended in Bend
late Thursday, March 7, had first
lieen charged with first degree
murder in the case following the
finding of the body of Mrs. Arz
ncr on a county road four miles
from here.
An autopsy revealed that Mrs.
iVrzncr actually died prior to mid
night on Wednesday. March 6,
although her body was not dis
covered until Thursday morning.
Bail on O'Connor has been set
at $23,000 and he remains in jail
here.
T. R. Conn is to be appointed
his defense attorney by tho circuit
judge, Chnrlcs Foster.
O'Connor has said little about
the incident beyond his initial
claim that the woman jumped or
fell out of his pickup. The autopsy
revealed that the woman suffered
multiple fractures and authori
ties speculated that she had been
run over at least once and per
haps repeatedly.
No date has been set for the
trial.
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