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rlEKSPAPtR SECriCS GSN.REK.ANO DOCUiiEKrS DIV. Attend H-M CookWgTSchool Wednesday, Thursday At Fairgrounds In The- Day's Sen's By FRANK JbXKLNS In Washington yesterday, a gov ernment press official was being fried out in the pan by a con gressional investigating commit tee because of a statement he is alleged to have made recently to the effect that the government HAS A RIGHT TO LIE in order to defend itself. The incident had to do with the situation that arose back in the grim days when we were tell ing the Russians to get their mis siles out of Cuba OR ELSE. The "or else" is believed to have been an ultimatum to get the missiles out or face nuclear war. The press officer (his name is Sylvester I is supposed to have been asked by the reporters if the nuclear threat had been made. He is supposed to have denied it. Accused later of having LIED, he is supposed to have stated that the government has an inherent right to save itself "when it is agoing into a nuclear war." He told the investigating com mittee yesterday that the re mark (to the effect that th? gov ernment has a right to lie under certain grave circumstances) was taken out of context and was a "kind of shorthand." He said that on the one hand "there is no right of the government or any of its members to lie." "But, on the other hand," he said, "I believe in times of ex treme peril it is incumbent on the United States government to save itself through the means nec essary." Is he right? Or is he wrong? Let's put it this way: Suppose our government, f o r reasons that it considers good and sufficient, is planning an assault (of whatever kind) on an enemy. Suppose it is asked by the re porters what it has in mind to do. If it tells the truth, the whole truth, it will tip off the enemy. Deception is a vital element in war. If the enemy can be de ceived, he can often be destroyed The Battle of Hastings is an out standing example of htat funda mental fact of war. All through that long and his toric day back in 1066, Duke Wil liam of Normandy had hammered at King Harold's line. The wall of Saxon shields was Impenetra ble. A Norman knight, Ivo Taille fcr, made one of the spectacular passes of history. He rode up and down the Saxon line, tossing his sword and his lance into the air and catching them as they came down. Then he smashed into the line of shields. He penetrated several ranks deep, but the Saxons closed around him and killed him. They closed the line before the Nor mans could breach it in force. Then Duke William tried a stratagem. He called for the ancient trick of a feigned retreat. His men turned and rode down the hill in seeming disorder. That did it. Harold's Saxons, believing the enemy beat en, BROKE RANKS and followed in wild pursuit. The disciplined Normans then turned around and DESTROYED THEM. That was the end of Saxon Eng land. Suppose King Harold had been tipped off that the retreat would be a feint. His ranks would then have been PREPARED. They would have stood fast. In that event, Duke William's attack would have been a failure, and England would have re mained Saxon. Great events can hang on STRATAGEMS. This js the point: If a lie is necessary to CON FUSE AN ENEMY, and thus save a nation from possible defeat a .government is justified even in lying to the reporters. UAPDV EAMIIY Rlnh were rescued Monday by Indian trapperi after spending Canada's froien north after their light plane crashed. Teresa, and two daughters, Sheryl. left, and Melissa, in receiving the good newt. A ton, Frank, wet at tchool at Hiflh ytsttrtfay Lw lst mtjht HiH ytcr 9 Lew ytar 190 M9h pit 14 yurs Low Mil 14 ytan Prtop. pjt 24 hours Sinct Jan. I Sam parted last yew 34 mi M HI .J1 Skeleton & Army Signs Space Park Agreement SALEM (UPI) - Army Engi neers have signed an agreement which puts the Boardman Space Age Industrial Park in north- central Oregon a step closer, Gov. Mark Hatfield said Monday. Hatfield told an afternoon news conference the only remaining roadblock before final develop ment of the project can proceed is an agreement with the Navy. This concerns costs involved in taking over Navy-owned property. in the area. He said he could not estimate when it would be settled. Details Given Hatfield said the agreement with the engineers would set aside four miles of Columbia River wa terfront land for recreational use. and seven miles for industrial use. The stale would give its land in the area to the government, the government would condemn some privately owned land along the river, then give the entire block of property back to the state. If the property goes unused for 20 years, it is subject to possible reversion to the government. Hatfield said Boeing Company which is "anxious" to use the property, already has submitted its planned use of the waterfront area to the engineers for review and approval. Hatfield indicated there was a possibility Boeing might begin work on its Boardman develop ment before final agreement with the Navy is reached. Other Topics On other topics, the governor said he felt the public utility com missioncr should be allowed to set regulations as to the number of men in a train crew. The legislature is now consider ing proposals to cut the size of main line freight train crews to five men. He termed PUC control "sounder approach" than having the legislature set crew size by law. Hatfield said he had no specific wording in mind for a prayer in school amendment to the constitu tion called for in his inaugural address. He said specific wording should be left to the legislature. He said he did not agree with a House Alcohol Committee move lo increase liquor commissioners' per diem to $150 for three meet ins a month. Thev presently re ceive $20 a meeting. He said anv increases in per diem allowances should apply to: all commissions, and should not be on a monthly basis. I Floret San Bruno. Calif., and Price Ten Cents 1! Pages DIM SALEM (UPH - The skeleton of Gov. Mark Hatfield's civil de fense budget was formally ap proved Monday night by a Ways and Means subcommittee that also called for a rewrite of the state's civil defense law. The subcommittee voted unani mously to recommend a $50,034 alternate civil defense budget. It would pay for a three person staff. The governor asked for a $199.- 239 general fund budget for an 18 -person agency. The subcommittee voted 5-0 to recommend a redraft of the state CD law so that it will list the agencies with civil defense re sponsibilities, such as the state police, highway department, wel fare, finance and fire marshal. Agency heads would belong to a CD advisory committee. In a third action, the subcom mittee voted 3-2 to put $50,000 in the state emergency fund for civil defense in the coming two years "if the federal government comes out with a real honest-to- goodness program." The subcommittee s action re affirmed its earlier conclusions that civil defense has been weak program in Oregon. Gov. Mark Hatfield has prom- Mob Storms Parliament LONDON (UPD Charging mounted policemen pushed back a crowd of more than 2.000 dem onstrators who stormed the houses .of Parliament today to protest British unemployment. Several injuries and arrests were reported. The fighting, shouting crowd yelled "gestapo" and "Fascist thugs" at the police, then staged a mass sitaown in rariiamem Square, attacking automobiles and tying up traffic. About 300 policemen forced the demonstrators out of the fore court of the Parliament buildings. They crushed the rioters, many of them women, against the iron railings in the process. Fighting broke out when the demonstrators, who had marched through London to Parliament where they had hoped to lobby with their members, were refused admission to the buildings. The crowd grew as London un ions joined in the "right to work" demonstration, originally organ ized bv the Northern Federation of Trades Council. Britain's unemployment, aggia vated by the worst winter of the century, already has topped 800.- 000. the highest figure since 1947, with the north being one of the hardest hit regions oi tne coun try. . ' Jl i Helen Klaben, New York, seven harrowing weeks in Shown here it Flores' wife, their San Bruno home after the time. UPI Telephoto Fab Fund Okayed ised to press a vigorous fight for civil defense. The chairman of the House Military Affairs Com mittee, Rep. Winton Hunt, R Woodburn. who also said he would fight for the program, failed lo show up at the subcommittee meeting as planned. Present Services Liked Subcommittee members said the program they propose will center on coordination of services pro vided by existing agencies. Sen. Lynn Newbry, R-Ashland, said it is agencies such as the state police "to whom we are necessarily going to look in an emergency. 'I think we will find more com munications available in the high way department and the state po lice than civil defense thought It had," he said. The federal program was criti cized by Newbry for "very little leadership." But he said Oregon should have emergency funds available "in the event the led eral government comes up with a new concept that should be ex ploited on the state level. Sen Dwight Hopkins, D-Imbler, and Rep. Sidney Leikcn, D-Roseburg, agreed. Sen. Alfred Corbett, D-Portland, and Subcommittee Chairman Bcu lah Hand, D-Milwaukie, voted against emergency money. The subcommittee was told that under the new budget there would not be enough manpower in the civil defense office to keep "prod ding local governments to keep up fallout shelter programs. Finance Director Freeman Holmer conceded the local units have needed prodding to combat "inertia . . . lethargy. ' Corbett criticized Hatfield for a negative attitude. "It would have been helpful if the governor, instead of criticiz ing, had sat down with the com mittee and helped work out a re duced budget," he said. Other Highlights Taxation The House Tax Com mittee heard testimony that a pro posed doubling of beer and wine taxes might drive Oregon's one brewery and one winery out of business. Racing When no member of the racing commission showed up at a House Planning and Develop ment Committee hearing on rac ing, the committee postponed the meeting to April 1 and said it would subpoena the commission's secretary. Alcohol The House Alcoho' Control Committee approved a measure which would increase the per diem of liquor commissioners to $150 a month. They now re ceive $20 a day for three meet ings a month. Coed Found CORVALLIS UPIi Edna Pembcrton, 21 - year . old Oregon State University coed missing since last Thursday, is tale in Central Oregon, her foster father said lodav. Walter C. Kraft. Cor- vallis, said he received a letter from the girl mailed Monday at Sisters saying she had left "on an impulse." Pair Rescued After 7 Weeks In Wasteland WHITEHORSE. Yukon iL'PP An adventuresome girl from Brooklyn and a husky California mechanic related from their hos pital beds today the incredible account of 48 days spent on a frozen Yukon mountainside with only the Bible for inspiration and melted snow for subsistence. "We never gave up hope. We lived from day to day, hoping someone would come," aid Helen Klaben, 21. Miss Klaben and Ralph Floret. 42, of San Bruno, Calif., disap peared Feb. 4 on a flight from Whitehorse to Seattle, Wash., aboard Flores' tingle-engine plane. Two weeks ago they were giv en up at dead. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Send Dunes Bill Introduced By Duncan WASHINGTON UP1 - A bill to establish the Oregon Dunes National Seashore was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Robert Duncan, D-Ore. Duncan said his bill set the boundaries of the area lo prevent interference with private property. tree larms and wood products in dustries. The boundaries of the proposed Seashore arc the only serious difference between his plan and those of Sen. Maurine Neuberc- er, D-Ore., and Secretary of In terior Stewart Udall, Duncan said. "I am hopeful that this can be resolved so that the entire park issue can be solved." the fresh man congressman added. Under the Duncan bill, the park would extend from the Siuslaw point opposite the community of Lakeside on the south. The park would not include three fresh water lakes cast of U.S. Highway 10 Woahink, Siltcoos and Tahkenitch but Duncan said public access to the three should be guaranteed. After talking to property own ers in the area, Duncan said he believed access could be obtained on a trade or purchase basis along the south end of Woahink Lake, the southwest side of Silt coos and the southwest side of Tahkenitch. Sen. Neuberger has proposed a larger Seashore which would in clude the three lakes. 'It would preserve the Dunes in the hands of the National Park Service," Duncan said of his bill. "It would give substantial access to fresh water lakes. Aside from county property, stale property, national forest property . . . there national forest property . . . there are only about 14 parcels of pri vate properly involved, and that all west of the highway." Reds Defy Meet Ban RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil UPI i Communist leaders today defied a state government ban on their scheduled "Hale America" rally tonight and said it would be held despite threats of mass arrests. A Communist spokesman report ed the arrival without incident of an Argentine delegation aboard a chartered aircraft despite Gov. Carlos Lacerda's threat to arrest Ihcm as they landed. A Belgian "intellectual," Isabel Blum, also arrived (o attend the Communist congress. Lacerda based his ban on the meeting, defying the federal gov ernment's prior approval, on grounds it sought with "foreign" aid to incite Brazilians lo revolt Bush pilot Charles Hamilton spotted the couple's "SOS" scrawled in the snow as he flew over the frigid wasteland Sunday, (hen saw Miss Klaben frantically waving near a lean-to constructed from the small plane's wreck age. Noliliea Indian Trippers Hamilton notified two Indian trappers who raced to the area by dogsled. The Indians picked up Flores four miles Irom the crash scene as he hobbled toward what he thought was Uie sound of a power saw. Hamilton, mean while, directed Royal Canadian Mounted Police to the scene. Floret, the father of six, and Miss Klfhen were airlifted to Watson Lake In northern BriUsh TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 19tiJ iff Ifi lii'4V'i'oViTXg lliill F Jiiiiir Mr- DAWSON YUKON NWHITEHORSE atoCTttViDT llBBI B BRITISH COLUMBIA :C:l-fitnDT ct innulA saM"""-' RESCUE SITE Royal Canadian Mounted Police and trappers raced by bush plane and dog team to the res cue of two persons, Ralph Floras, 42, San Bruno, Calif., and Helen Klaben, 21. Brooklyn, N.Y., lost for seven weeks in Canada's Far North country when their light plane crashed. The plane disappeared Feb. 4 en route from Whitehorse in the Yukon to Fort St. John, B.C. Both persons wore reported in amazingly good condi tion in a Whitehorse hospital. UPI Talephoto TFX Warplane Inquiry Delayed By Committee WASHINGTON UPH - Tile Senate investigations subcommit tee today called off a scheduled session of its TFX warplane in vestigation. Subcommittee Chairman John L. McClellan, D-Ark., told news men he was busy on other mat ters and would have to postpone the hearing until Wednesday. He assured reporters there was "no special significance" in the delay. Witnesses for today's closed scs. sion were to have included the admirals and generals who made up the source selection board which recommended that the TFX contract go to the Boeing Cu. 11 went instead to General Dynam its, touching off the present con troversy. Eventual cost of 1,700 of the supersonic Navy-Air Force fighter planes may exceed $fi billion. Defense Secretary Robert S McNamara said in testimony re leased by the subcommittee Mon day that the TFX hearing would result only in tremendous harm to many individuals." The secretary was praised today by Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield. He said. "I think we all recognize that the secre tary of defease has done an out standing Job in his two years in office. We have all the confidence in the world in his discretion, his integrity and his ability." In testimony released Monday by the Senate Investigations sub committee McNamara said the politically explosive inquiry had resulted in bitter accusations thai have hurt people both in the Pen tagon and on Capitol Hill. "I assume that the committee staff has been irritated at times God knows, we have been," he said. "1 am not suggesting quit Columbia Ihen transferred to a Canadian Pacific Airlines Dt'613 for the flight to Whitehorse larg est city in the Yukon. Dr. Nesla James, attending the couple al Whitehorse General Hospital, said today their condi tion was "remarkably good." Miss Klaben was being treated for a broken right arm and in juries to her (eet, one infected with gangrene. Flores had sever al fractured ribs, and leg injur ies and facial lacerations. Calls Ordeal "Horrible" "It was horrible," Miss Klaben I old newsmen in her hospital room. "We didn't know from day to day when one of us might wake up and find the (jlher dead." Telephone GRIM BEAR NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Bo i FT.NELS0N Al BERT A ""r PEACE RIVER ling. I am just being realistic. 1 think there is going lo be tre mendous harm done to many in dividuals as a result of til is hear ing.". The remarks were in the tran script of McNamara's testimony before the subcommittee Thurs day afternoon. They were made public for the first time Monday night. The secretary said the investi gation into his decision to award the contract to General Dynam ics has left the impression "that I am either subject to political influence, self-interest or stupid, and I call that harm." Barton Urges Governor To Speed Agency Data SALEM lUPH-llouse Speaker! Clarence Barton said today he would ask Gov. Mark Hatfield to "crack the whip over fccl-drag-ging state agencies" that were not providing legislative commit tees with needed information. Barton said the Board of High er Education was asked more than two weeks ago to provide a Ways and Means subcommittee with anticipated effects on enroll ment resulting from higher aca demic requirements (or oul-of-tlatc students. The Coquille Democrat also ci ted an incident Monduy in which Racing Commission representa tives (ailed to apcar at a meet ing of the house planning and de velopment committee although they had been given a five-week nuticc. The committee announced it would subpoena the contmission Miss Klaben was returning to (he United States alter working for the U.S. Bureau of Land De velopment in Fairbanks, Alaska, when the crash happened during a blinding snowstorm. She had agreed to share the expense o( Ihe flight with Flores. Flores, a Spanish-American, was traveling to California to vis it his family. He had been work ing as a mechanic at a Distant Early Warning (dew-line) sta tion in the Canadian north. They said they had been living off Uie land in Ihe seven weeks since the crash. The aircraft car ried little or no survival gear and litle food, but Miss Klaben was carrying five suitcases of cloth ing which Canadian air force of TU 4-8111 No. 7098 For P New York Bidder On Both the Bend and the today bidding sharply in an effort to induce a New York firm to establish a chemical distillate plant in its area. The bidding is the result of a bid opening in Port land Monday afternoon in Chemical Company of New two million tons of pine tree stumps at a cost of $2.27 per ton. The bids called for a 20-year contract for use of the stumps as a primary source of chemical extracts such as turpentine and resin, and terms of the bid called for construction of a plant somewhere in the Bend Klamath Falls region which would employ about 100 persons. Gov. Mark Hatfield an nounced late Monday that the new industry would be gin operations soon in Ore gon. He said first interest in locating in Oregon was shown by the firm at an eco nomic development meeting in New York in 19(30. Locally, a number of individ uals were working on the effort to get the company to locale in the former Johns-Manville plant norlh of here. i lie slumps are located in Uirec national forests. There are 1150,000 tons in the Deschutes, 700,- ooo tons in the Wincma and 450, 000 tons in the Fremont. Chamber officials report tlioy have been in contact with the Hoyden-Newport Company's Pen sacola office since late in 1900, and have lecn attempting to in terest the firm in this area. A telephone call (o the company tins morning produced the infor mation that the firm must con duct further research on stump- age use prior lo any construclion or purchase of an operating plant. The former Johns - Manvillc plant Is now owned by the Boise Cascade Company of Idaho which has not indicated what Uicir fu ture plans may be concerning the structure located adjacent to U.S. 97 and built at an cstimaled cost of $5 million a few years ago. secretary to appear April 1. Barton said Hatfield "may not be aware of the reluctance on the part of some commissions to co operate with the legislature." He predicted the governor would "be cooperative." Burton said he expects the full Ways and Means Committee will approve a subcommittee action to trim the 20-man civil defense agency to a Ihrce-man staff with a (50.000 budget. He said "I am not impressed with the argument that we may lose federal funds because of Uie new civil defense proposal. It seems strange to me that some people think federal aid is all right for civil defense, but nut all right for education." Hatfield has voiced opposition to federal aid for Oregon's schools. ficials said probably kept tlic cou ple alive. Tlicir only food was two cans of sardines, two cans of fruit sal ad, a container of tuna fish and some soda crackers. This lliey ate during their first week on the isolated mountainside. "When that was gone, we lived on melted tnow," Miss Klaben said. "I can still taste the sar dines. I used to hate them, but now I love them. I feel wonder ful. It was a miracle. . .I'm so happy I could cry, The girl, who quit her job with a Madison Ave. adverUsing agen cy last August and set off for Alaska Willi a girl friend, lost 30 pounds during her ordeal. She troops near Bananera In north now weighs about 110. leastern Guatemala, the army said. Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelake and Lakevlew Variable cloudiness with a few showery period! through Wednesday, busty nuth. erly winds 715 m.p.h. Low to. night 32. High Wednesday H. Firm Only Stump ago Klamath Falls areas were which the I ley den-Newport York was the only bidder on Governor Hatfield held out fur ther promise of industrial devel opment news for the state when he termed his round of business recruiting conferences last week as "encouraging," and said, "I hope to be able to make an an nouncement In the near future. I was very encouraged by last week s trip. KU Schedule Discussed By Parents i ;-: - .-.,-.-7 -v. About 200 parents met in the Klamalh Union High School cafe teria at 9 p.m. Monday to dis cuss the possibility of continuing the extended schedule operation at the high school. A committee of parents was named to continue a mutual study with school officials in an effort to see if there are any workable solutions in the extended sched ule operation. , Members of Die commiltee are Mrs. Ted Hyde, Mrs. Bob Chil- cotc. Mrs. Robert Veatch. Mrs. L. R. Hiatt, Mrs. William Wales, and Mrs. Ruby Weinberg. The committee will also work as a smaller body to channel questions and suggestions from parents to the administration. The high school board recently voted to change Hie schedule to split shift operation for the coming school year. Monday night's parent meeting came after the regular meeting of Parents and Patrons. This group did not have a discussion of Uie school schedule on Its reg ular agenda, but most of the par ents stayed and the meeting was turned over to Mrs. Hyde who is chairman of Uie committee ap pointed to work with the school officials. Ray Hunsakcr, superintendent of city schools, Willard McKin- ny, KU principal, and several teachers attended the session and in their answers to questions from parents, showed strong sup port of Uie school board s deci sion on a split schedule. Reds Strike In Guatemala GUATEMALA CITY 'UPI) - Loyal troops battled Communist led guerrillas in a number of mi nor clashes over the weekend, the army announced today. There was no report of casualties on either side. The army announcement said a patrol from Puerto Barrios ex changed fire for "several minutes" Sunday night with a band of gun men on the Atlanuc Highway. The gunmen fled. A band of about nine men fired on a sentry at the Matias de Gal vcz naval base Sunday afternoon, Uie announcement said. Return fire by the sentry and troops who came to his aid scattered the at tackers, who were chased Into the hills. Another band of about 150 per. sons surrendered peaceably to
