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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1963)
i it In Tk- Day's km By FRANK JKXKINS As (his is written President Kennedy, accompanied by Secre tary of State Dean Rusk and ranking members of Congress from both parties, are just about uue j iana at ban Jose, capital u. uw mue central American re public of Costa Rica. where ihv will discuss mutual problems with ine presidents of six Latin-Amer can countries Costa Rica. El Salvador. Guatemala, Honduras Nicaragua and Panama. Why the meeting? It was suggested by Costa R can President Miguel Vdigoras Fuentes. who told a member of the staff of the U.S. .News & AVorld Report a few days ago: "The visit of President Ken nedy to Costa Rica was proposed by me. I felt, and the leaders of the other Central American coun tries agreed with me, that the time was rie for President Ken nedy to come here to talk with us about the Alliance for Prog ress and what should be done, about Castro." He added: - "Perhaps it would be more ac curate if I said '(or President Kennedy to tell us what the U.S proposes to do about Castro.' since Cuba is now too heaviiv armed for us in Central America to touch." "The problem of Castro has be come worse, more serious than ever before. The U.S. obviously lias its reasons for behaving the way it does, but the fact is that Cuba has been armed to the point where it is now difficult to get! the communists out. The Rus sians have also LEFT AN ARMY THERE, and that complicates the problem even more." He concluded: "It is now difficult to say how the Cuban problem can be solved The Bay of Pigs was a magnifi cent opportunity to get rid of Castro. The showdown last Oc tober over the Russian missiles was another great opportunity. and that too was lost. . . . Now we are in a defensive position in Central America because Cuba is much stronger than we arc. "What happens now depends on; the United States." This meeting in Costa Rica is curiously interesting. Back in 1824 tail years ago- General Simon Bolivar, the great South American patriot, issued an invitation to the Latin-American governments then existing to at tend a proposed Congress of American Republics to be held at Panama. Delegates to this Congress were to be empowered to discuss various questions con cerning American affairs, partic ularly those relating to liberal commercial intercourse among the nations of the Western Hemisphere. In the spring of 1825. the invi tation was extended to the Unit ed States. President John Quin cy Adams was immensely inter ested in the idea, and when the Ail-American Congress met m Panama he sent to Congress a message saying that the invita tion had been accepted, and nam-' ing the U.S. delegates. . What happened? It's at least interesting. When President Adams sent his nominations as delegates to the senate, thev were referred to the' committee on foreign affairs, which reported against them on the eround that participation in the All-American Congress would draw us into entangling relations with other countries. The senate debated the commit tee report in secret sessions for about a month and finally CON FIRMED the nominations, and voted funds lor the delegates' at- lnrtance. But bv the time the1 ruckus was over it was too late for the delegates to reach Pana ma before adjournment of the congress. It's interesting to speculate on what might have happened it there had been more statesman ship and less politics in connec lion with Simon Bolivars pro- nearly a century and half ago to create a Congress of the Americas. In that event, the Monroe Doc trine might have become a living reality that would have en dured down through all these in tervenes decades. It might still he a living reality. If so. we would have known what to do about Castro and would have had the power an(i thc WILL to do it at the time when it should have been done. Teams Attempt Crash Rescue LA PAZ. Bolivia U'PI'-B.escuc teams attempted today to reach the bodies of 41 persons, includ ing two Americans, believed killed Friday when tneir noiman lines DC6 crashed into a 14.300 fool Andean peak in southernmos. Peru. Weal ho r Ht9l mtrrdiy Law Utl night Hi9h ytar aqo Low ytar ag High past 14 ytart Low patt 14 years Precip. past 34 hours Sinco Jan. I Samt period last ytar I "Ml n oisji ti 1U Printers Turn Down Strike Pact NEW YORK iLPI'-The strik- g printers' unexpected rejection of a contract settlement sought by their leaders left publishers today with little hope of resuming pub lication this week. Mayor Robert Wagner, whose settlement proposal had been ac cepted by negotiators for the printers and publishers, started all over again by calling both sides to meetings today. Publishers planned a meeting to consider what steps they will take to end the 101-day-old shutdown. The stormy four-hour union meeting Sunday at which the printers voted down tnc settlement by a 64-vote margin was punctual ed by boos and catcalls, aimed by the rank and file membership at its international union president. Elmer Brown, who had urged ac ceptance of the settlement. Brown, who threatened to walk out of thc meeting, warned the strikers "If you don't follow your international leadership, you'll be going down a blind alley and be out on a limb by yourself." The vote, 1,621 to 1,557, actually was larger than the 2,970 printers employed by the nine newspapers affected by the strike. The total membership of ITU Local 6. 11, 000, was eligible to vote, including ,500 pensioners. Observers close to the strike felt there was a chance the international union would order a mail referendum of the entire membership of Lo cal 6. Other complications developed when the Pholoongravers' Union threatened to strike four newspa-j pers today if a new agreement is not reached by 4 p.m., EST. But the Stereotypers and the New York Daily News and New York Times Guild units voted to accept the new contract propos als given their unions. Other Guild units 'will vote today on the $4.13 settlement offer to extend their contract another five months be yond the present Oct. 31, 19H4 to coincide with the other newspaper unions. V I fctatiaast 1 .-Sts! , U WARNS TEEN-AGERS In Cornelia, Ga., "Wink", a young prisoner serving ftfe for murder, tells a student at a high school, "This is the way I started getting into trouble" during a session he and five other youthful offenders had with the student body. At his left is "Give", another prisoner who said his dropout from school was his worst mistake. UPI Telephoto Convicts Warn Teen-agers About Wages Of Delinquency CORNELIA. Ga. ( UPI '-He wasj introduced only as "Wink" and when the crew -cut youth stepped to the center of a high school auditorium platform here a hush fell over 700 teen-agers. "I wanted to be a man before I was ready." he said soberly. "When I was 17. I decided all it took to be a man was to do the things I saw men doing. I got married but when things got rough. I picked up a gun. I pulled the trigger." "Wink" is serving life imprison ment and is one of 800 youths committed to the Georgia Indus trial Training Institute on a moun tain ridee in the North Georgia Blue Ridge foothills. He is one of six volunteers in a dramatic "Operation Teen ager" program that is sending young convicted criminals into the schools of thc state to tell teen acers what the end of juvenile delinquency look like. "I've been coming to assemblies here for four years, but I've never seen this crowd of students o O.Of OHE.LtBBART EiSpmtKTlOII Price Ten Cents 14 Pages EYES ON TITLE The Henley Horned open their campaiqnfor the state A-2 basket ball title tonight in a crucial battle with third-ranking Elmira on the Coos Eay maple. The Hornets, who have a 22-0 victory record are, left to right, back row, manager Gary Barker, Steve Rolling, Terry Beilby, Charley Thompson, Kent Gooding, Earl All britton, Mike Beymer, Tom Sanders and coach Jerry Johnson; front row, LeVoy Young, Elton Schiro, Dick Johnson and Steve Rand. New Floods Threaten East As River Ice Jams Break By United Press International Floods forced hundreds from their homes from Wisconsin to Virginia today. Another winter storm brewed in the Rockies. Ice-melting temperatures and thunderstorms sent flood waters rushing through the low areas of; Erie and Cattaraugus counties in, western New York. Fifty persons fled their homes when an ice jam burst on Cattaraugus Creek. A cofferdam buckled and collapsed on the Hud son River near Troy. N.Y.. Satur- day. killing one and injuring three. Officials blamed the contact of the icy waters against the steel beams. Ice gorges broke up on the Al legheny River in western Pennsyl vania Sunday night, and flood1 waters threatened several towns. In the Meadville area, about 300 families were alerted to be ready to evacuate as civil defense work ers kept a watch on French Creek. The Allegheny rose about one foot at Oil City, Pa., when thc quiet." said Jack Scroggs, of Cor nelia, a senior at South Haber sham High School. Kennon Davis, principal of the school, invited "Wink", and four other prisoners to address the student body. They were called only by their first name. "We have had five or six in our school end up thc same way these fellows have," Davis told a re porter. "I'm enthusiastic about the response to what they say. I don't think any high school boy or girl should fail to hear facts like that." W alter Matthews, superintendent of the industrial institute, said the idea for the project came to him "out of tlie conscience" of four Texas prisoners who were using thc same technique on adults. "Being a teen agei is like stand ing on the end ol a diving board." Wink told tlie students here. "We are so anxious to jump into the water of adulthood. But instead of making a clean dive, loo many of us just do a belly bust. That was me. "Marriage is not for bovs and : . . . ' r, COIP. Ml. mm ice moved through early today, but the river was still about two feet from flood stage there. Rains Batter Virginia An ice jam on French Creek at Cambridge Springs, Pa., backed up about four feet of water. In flood-battered southwest Vir ginia, heavy rams sent streams swirling over their banks again. More than 50 houses were dam aged and 100 families lett their homes in the Big Stone Gap. Va., area. Kentucky Gov. Bert Combs made a television appeal Sunday tor clothes, bedding and money for east Kentucky flood refugees. Wa ters dropped late Sunday from new weekend floods at Harlan, Ky., on the Cumberland River, and Hazard, Ky., on the North Fork of the Kentucky River. A crest 10 foot over fluod stage Aas predicted at Baruourvillc, Ky. today, and a crest of the Ohio, River at 8.8 feet above flood stage was expected at Louisville Wed nesday. girls. We fought that out the hard way. It takes more to be a man or woman than the emotional dream you sec on television. "We thought we were different. We went into marriage with the amazement of w ide-eyed children. But our high school dreams faded Our vows became warped. There was blame and recrimination. Then I picked up a gun and end ed the dream for good." Davis said student dropouts be cause ol matrimony arc among his school's most perplexing prob- lems. 'Crime isn't choosy about who it picks." an adult prisoner. 'Jim," told tlie Cornelia students. 'Our place iat Alto a few miles south of here' represents all sides of the track. We've come here because some of you may be well on your way to where we are now. You still have a chance to change. It's too late for us because we can't take back our records." KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, At least eight families fled their homes at Madison, Ind.. and Ve- vay, Ind,, in the face of the risin Ohio. Three persons drowned Friday night when their motorboat cap sized in the backwaters from an Ohio River flood near New Al bany, Ind. Annual Spring Rampage In Wisconsin, the I'ecatonica Kiver went on its annual spring rampage, flooding the main street ol Darlington and closing four highways. The Kickapoo flooded between Soldiers Grove and Reeds town. Wis. Closing Law Draws Blast By Hatfield SALEM (UPI)-Gov. Mark Hat field said today he opposed the proposed Sunday closing law ami iny other legislation which "mis tratcs" competition. He also called for an "unencum bered" cigarette tax, and blasted the cigarette industry's indication it might not fight the tax if the legislation includes restrictions on price wars. "Il is not right for the indiiMry to attempt to blackmail itself into a prolit, the governor said. "I don't know what my reaction would be. he added, if thc ciga relic tax were passed with the lair trade stipulation. Of the Sunday closing law he said, "I do not support this type of legislation. 1 am for free capi talistic enterprise and think legis lation which Iruslratcs competition is not sound. He said there were certain areas w here regulations were nec essary, and cited billboards and consumer protection as examples. He said he felt the public need ed lull disclosure of interest rates on purchases, and that real es tate sulxlivisions should come un der restrictions so buyers could not lie misled about weather or growing conditions. Hatfield termed 50 per cent sup port of school costs by the state as the "ideal goal," and said he would support increases in basic school support over his budget re quests il it could "fit in w ith other agency requests" In the overall budget. He said he viewed major goals of thc present session as traffic safety laws, welfare, rehabilita tion, and medical care program improvements, and the education program. He said the agreement on the Boardm.in space age development park had not yet been (ormalized by the Army Corps of Engineers Hatlield said negotiations with the Navy had to be postKncd un til agreement was reached with the Cors of Engineers. He said when agreement was reached with the Navy he might go before the legislature (or mure money, or authorization lor thc land Board to use common school lunds. He said he was not able at this time lo announce what amount of money would be in volved. He said agreement "in princi pic" had been reached on the Oregon Dunes proposal, but be could have no specific comment until tlie proposed bills were print cd. ' AS ' -.SMI MONDAY. MARCH IS, 13 Cooperation Theme PiasEie !y lefiiiedy SAX JOSE, Costa Rica (L'PI'- President Kennedy landed here through a sprinkle of volcanic ash today, bearing a doctrine of hemi spheric cooperation he promised would forge ultimate victory against poverty and injustice. A thundering roar of "welcome' arose from an estimated 150,000 Costa Ricans who were jammed 200 deep behind barriers as the President's helicopter arrived in La Sabana airport. The President had transferred to the helicopter for the flight into town alter his jet landed at El Coco airfield. 15 miles away, com pleting a flight from Palm Beach, I'la. The President's aircraft came in for a landing through a sprinkle of ash coming from the smoking crater of the 11,260-foot volcano. Mt. Irani. The President's helicopter was followed by two more carrying other members of his party w hich included Secretary of State Dean Rusk and ranking members of Congress from both parties who Hew here for an historic meeting with six Central American presi dents. Kennedy, hatless and accompa nied by the Costa Rican foreign minister, made his way to the eviewing stand where the other Central American presidents were awaiting him. The throng shouted "welcome and waved American flags. The President then launched nto a speech in which he hailed Costa Uicans as a "steadfast and courageous people" who have es tablished a "progressive democra cy which is a model for the hemi sphere." "In this historic conference," Kennedy said, "we meet as neigh bors to find ways of strengthening this union, remembering always that thc hope of economic prog less can never be allowed to weaken our determination to ex tend and perfect the political lib erty and human rights of our citi zens." The President also called fori strengthening of defenses against foreign imperialism" a refer ence that appeared calculated to meet Central America s fears of Unit Ballot Plan Downed WASHINGTON IUPI) - The Supreme Court today struck down Georgia's county unit voting system, which city dwellers have said throttles their political strength in favor of rural voters. Thc 8 to 1 ruling was an nounced by Justice William O. Douglas. Justice John M. Harlan dissented. Douglas said the only concep tion of political equality under historical U. S. standards is "one person, one vote." The county unit system was not used in Georgia's 19i2 elec tions, in which racial moderate Carl Sanders was elected gover nor over segregationist Marvin Griffin. The case was on appeal at that time. Sanders would also have won if thc unit system had been in effect. Thc court did not take up to day "basic ground rules" for im plementing its Tennessee decision of last term. That decision opened the doors of federal courts to voter complaints about unfairness in apportionment of state legis- islatures. Justices Potter Stewart and Tom C. Clark, in a separate statement, said "this case, on the contrary, involved statewide elec tions of L'nitcd States senator and of state executive and judicial officers responsible to a statewide constituency. Capistrano Awaits SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO.I Calif. 'UPI' Tuesday is "Swal low Day" in this colorful Span- h-style mission town, and the religious and non-religious alike are prepared lo welcome the thousands of feathered creatures lor the IWilh year. For the past several days a few of tlie swallows have been arriv ing from the winter in Hie south and checking over thc grounds of Mission San Juan Capistrano Thc natives consider these ad vance arrivals scouts or tlie main flights which tradition says I Hi-phone Communist subversion from Cuba. As Kennedy arrived, at least two of the six Central American presidents taking part in the con ference were reported to be in re volt against U.S. policy in Cuba. ;tvr', 1 " ft ; -(4 RELEASED PAIR Attorney James Donovan is shown with Geraldine Shamma, left, of Boston, Mass., and Martha O'Neal, Atlanta, Ga., shortly after they landed at Homestead Air Force Base, Fla., from Havana Sunday. Donovan obtained the release of the two women after three years in Castro's jails. UPI Telephoto Freedom Sought For Yanks Confined HOMESTEAD AFB, Fla. (LTD i James B. Donovan, the New Voi'H .attorney Who bought..two American prisoners back from Cuba Sunday, said he hopes to. gam release of the estimated 33 other Americans held in Cuban jails. Donovan and the two women whose release he obtained ar rived here from Havana on a special plane. I am confident that within the next few weeks I can prove thai the nine American skindivcrs ar rested by (Cuban Premier Fidel) Castro several weeks ago were not saboteurs but were ship wrecked and should be released," Donovan said. "About 35" Prisoners He said "about 35" Americans, including the two women released Sunday and thc skindivers, were Castro's prisoners. The women are Martha O Neal of Atlanta. Ga., and Orlando, Fla., and Geraldine Shamma, a native of Boston, Mass., and a former New York City resident. 'Tnese are the only two Ameri can ladies who were held prison er." Donovan said. He said he visited 17 American Bomb Blows At Airport SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A bomb in a parcel post package exploded today at San Francisco International Airimrt, injuring two postal employes and starting a fire in the airmail terminal build ing. Postmaster John Fixa said post al workers quickly extinguished the fire. Thc blast also blew out windows in the building. Attendants at Peninsula Hos pital in nearby Burlingame said the injured men apparently were not seriously hurl. They were identified as David lielbow, 4fi, of Redwood City, Calif., and Roliert Kingman, 42, of San Francisco. Both are mail distribution clerks will reach the town during thc night. If tradition holds true, and vet eran swallow watchers assure us it will, the birds will circle the town until dawn the drone of their wings awakening the citi zens. Several hundred persons arc ex iiected to be gathered at thc gates of thc mission by dawn to watch the arrival of the birds, who set up housekeeping in thc mud nests they vacated last fall when they departed for warmer areas. fU 4-sll No. im Dn Costa Hica Guatemala and Nicaragua were erned over the said to be cone slow pace of the American States Organization of tOASl in han- dling the Cuban malan President problem. Guate Miguel Y'digorasl In Castro's Prisons prisoners on the Isle of Pines, a Cuban offshore island, Saturday afternoon, and talked to others in Havana Sunday. He said he spent three hours talking with the skin divers who were seized last month. Mrs. O'Neal, who told newsmen she was manhandled at the time of her arrest, said she was taken into custody because Cuban au thorities "claimed t had some Arbitrators 5 Remaining SAN FRANCISCO (UPI I - A three-man arbitration panel will meet in San Francisco this week to settle the five remaining issues in the lengthy automation dispute between Southern Pacific Railroad and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. The railroad and the union signed two agreements Saturday night, ending a two-month con stant strike threat by the 11,000 member brotherhood in seven Western states. The key agreement was a con tract on 175 of tlie issues in tlie five-year dispute. It provided tlie union's members almost complete protection against dismissal as a result of automation. The second document was an agreement, as requested last week by President Kennedy, to settle thc five remaining issues by bind ing arbitration. J. Keith Mann, 38, associate dean of the Stanford University Law School, was named as the neutral member of the arbitration board Sunday by Kennedy. The railroad and union have not an nounced their representatives for the panel. The five issues remaining are 1. Details of job retraining for clerks; 2. A formula which the company could reduce tlie work force in time of economic dis tress; 3. The time the railroad would be given to re-hire em Swallows The flights arc expected to con tinue for weeks, but Tuesday Is the day that counts. For years many persons placed a religious significance to the re turn of the swallows on March 19th St. Joseph's Day. Not so the Franciscan fathers who op erate tlie mission. However, thc fathers admitted ly are not unhappy the birds re turn to their mission because of the thousands of dollars that tour ists contribute lo various funds. The day is one of festivities for natives of Spanish extraction. Weather Klamath Falls, Tulrlake and Lakevlew Generally fair through Tuesday with westerly winds 5-10 m.p.h. Cool again tonight, lows -u. Highs Tuesday 46. Fuentes was quoted as saying: "The only way we'll settle tlie Cu ban issue is by bayonets." There was a huge wave of applause after Kennedy finished speaking. kind of contacts in Miami." Token Legal Representation She said she . was given only token legal representation at her trial but was treated "nicely" in prison. "I'm going to be tlie best American citizen ever," Mrs. O'Neal said. "I can thank God for tin's and I can thank Mr. Ken nedy, Mr. Donovan and even Mr. Castro, who let me go." To Settle SP Issues ployes laid off because of "acts of God," such as floods or earth quakes; 4. Money to be paid by the railroad to employes trans ferred from regular work areas, and 5. Means by which workers, who receive job retraining and still fail to qualify, can be re habilitated. Space Tieup Plan Delayed CAPE CANAVERAL (UPD- Tho first U. S. attempts to link up two objects in orbit a critical step toward development of manned space stations probably will be delayed until 1965, it was indicated today. This is a key goal that the So viet Union came within four miles of achieving last August. Jerome B. Hammack and Wal ter J. Kapryan of the federal space agency said today that at tempts to rendezvous" a manned space capsule and an un manned target object in orbit "should begin with about the fifth flight" In Project Gemini, Amer ican s newest man-in-space pro gram. Hammack and Kapryan pre sented their paper today before the opening session of a three-day space flight testing conference sponsored by the American Insti tute of Aeronautics and Astronau tics. The Gemini capsules w ill carry two-man learns of U. S. astro nauts into orbit. The first manned Mights in the new program are not expected until the middle of 19K4, and tlie fifth flight could not come before 19K5. As planned now, ' the "rendez vous attempt wiu involve launching an unmanned Agena-D upper stage Into orbit aboard an Atlas rocket, and then sending the two-man Gemini team Into space about 24 hours later to try to link up with it.
