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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1963)
Day s lews By FRANK JENKINS The news today? It s a little on the weird side. This new "hot" phone line be tween Washington and Moscow, tor example. It is designed to prevent a nu clear war from getting started by misiaKe. But You may ask How COULD a nuclear war get started by mistake.' Oddly enough, it ISN'T impos sible. A nuclear missile MIGHT go hog-wild. We hear of repeated missile mishaps at our launching pads. Something goes wrong, and the missile doesn't perform as it was expected to perform. So we push the button, and the missile destroys itself. But- Suppose something else went wrong and the missile FAILED to destroy itself. Suppose it went roaring and spitting out into space and eventually headed straight for Moscow. Suppose it was picked up by the Russian tracking devices and that the Russians leaped to the not too unreasonable conclusion that we were springing a SURPRISE attack on them. Suppose they then unleashed ALL their missiles at us. Or vica versa. Suppose a Russian experimen tal missile went out of control and WE JUMPED TO THE CON CLUSION that this was IT and turned our missiles loose. In either event, a nuclear war might be started. It is supposed to take with existing communications systems somewhere between six and 12 hours to get a message from Ken nedy to Premier Khrushchev, or from Premier Khrushchev to President Kennedy. It was out of this possibility that the "hot line" proposal arose. It was first imagined as a telephone line. But there are DANGERS in a telephone line. Imagine President Kennedy getting called out of bed at an unearthly hour of the night. Time zones, you know, make such a tiling quite possible. At the other end of the line, somebody would be sputtering in Russian. Even President Kenne dy, talented as he is, would be incapable of getting all the shades of moaning involved in what Mr. Kroosh would be saying. Suppose it happened the other way around. At the other end of the line, Mr. Kroosh might easily misunderstand President Kenne dy's Harvard-accented English. And - All the while the missile without a warhead, to be sure, but still a missile capable of be ing picked up by our warning de vices would be speeding to ward us. The natural thing would be for us to TURN OUR MISSILES LOOSE. The fat would then be in the fire. .So - ' The "hot line" won't be a phone line. It will be a teletype line. It will deliver its message in TEXT, which can be translated by capable interpreters. So - Presumably The start of a nuclear war by mistake may be prevented. Any way, that's the reasoning behind the proposals for a private line between the heads of state of the U.S.S.R. and the United Slates of America. It is indeed a strange world we're living in. isn't it? Bus Claims 8th Victim OROVILLE, Calif. (UPH - An eighth person died Sunday as a result of injuries received when a Greyhound bus plummeted into Feather River Canyon Saturday. The latest victim of the acci dent was Verner Scott. 84. a re tired University of Nevada pro fessor of agriculture. His wife also died in the accident on rain washed Highway 40-Alternatc. One person remained in critical condition at Oroville Medical Cen ter and 12 others were hospital ized with injuries. The California Highway Patrol said the bus. carrying 23 passen-1 gcrs. was traveling "too fast for conditions" when it skidded off the higlmay and plunged over a lOOfoot cliff. Capl. Ralph Walker of the pa trol said there were no skid marks on the highway. He said his inuatinatinn UK P H H d U C I C d "largelv on statements from wit- nesscs The bus was en route from Reno to San Francisco. II had by passed the more direct route via Highway 40 in favor of the scenic j trip through tne rugged reamer River area. Weather KUnvirti Fills, Tultlaka and Wktvltw! Partly cloudy with scattered showers throuall Tuesday. Lew tonight 17. High Tuesday r. Southerly winds Hi m.h. High yesterday -ee Lew last eight High year ago il Lew year ago 35 Precip. past 24 hours -M Since Jan. I yu Same period last year e.jl m . M m, jnin, -J , a . . av -V' J . m ' m i in row vP" r. OTI VISITORS v Members of the Joint Ways and Means Committee of the Oregon Legislative Assembly made an inspection tour of Oregon Technical Institute facilities and programs Saturday. They were guests of the Klamath County Chamber of Com merce at an informal dinner Saturday evening. Huddled with Sen. Harry Boivin and Rep. Carrol Howe, both lower right, are committee members Sen. Dan Thiel, who is chairman of the subcommittee on education, left; Rep. Stafford Hansell, Sen. E. D. I Deb I Potts, Rep. George Flitcraft, Sen. Ward Cook, Rep. Ross Morgan and Rep. Don McKinnis. The group visited other Oregon education institutions over the weekend, re turning to Salem Sunday. , e "j BRIEFING SESSION Sen. Ward Cook, Portland, and Sen. Harry Boivin get some of the background and purpose of OTI from Vern Owens, who has served as chairman of the OTI site committee for many years. Owens was one of a group of Klamath Falls business and professional men who hosted members of the Joint Ways and Means Committee of the Oregon Legislature here Saturday. Budget Two budget hearings concern ing the proposed city school dis trict budgets for the fiscal school year beginning July 1, 1963, will be held tonight, April 8. at the Klamath Union High School cafe teria. The hearing on the $1,389,179 elementary school budget will kick off at 8 p.m. and the dis cussion on the $1,153,395 KU budg Rusk Warns By Reds In PARIS (UPIl - U. S. Socre-j lary of State Dean Rusk warned today that Communist subversion and aggression still constitute a major threat to peace in South east Asia. With strong backing from the British and French, he pledged the United States would resist Communist aggression threats "wherever they arise." Rusk said the Unilcd Slates has a "vital interest in maintaining the independence of embattled South Viet Nam. where American troops are helping fight the Com munists. "The struggle may be protracted and bitter," he said, "but we have no doubt of ultimate vic tory." Rusk addressed the opening ses sion of a three-day meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organ ization (SEATO Council of Min isters. He spoke before- meeting w ith French President Charles de Gaulle and Premier Georges Pom pidou in what appeared to be a determined effort by both the United States and France to lift their relations out of their current deep freeze. A preliminary talk with French .M'ntcr Maurice Couv de Murville Sunday was described by American officials as "cordial and friendly." They discussed a broad field of issues ranging Irom Berlin and me r.uropcan common niarxci crisis to President Kennedy's plan 1 7I Price Tea Cents 12 Page vrv tit kh- ji luiftJiui anwwoeeweesw'- ' ltwj( i. . 7 ' Hearings et will start at 8:30 p.m. Also on the docket tonight will be the regular monthly meeting of the KU Board of Directors This meeting will also be held at the KU cafeteria and not at the administration building. A quorum of school board members will meet briefly at the adminis tration building, the legal meeting place, and then adjourn to con- Of Threat SEATO Area for an interallied nuclear force In NATO. American sources said Couve de Murville showed "some interest" in the nuclear lorce project. though he said France si ill w ants to know many more details. De Gaulle was reported by French government sources to have decided on a display of dip lomatic "charm" to prove to his partners, particularly the United States, that France remains a loyal member of the Western Al liance, despite recent bitter disa greements over nuclear policy and. the torpedoing of the Common Market talks with Britain last January. French cordiality was noticeable at the opening session of the SEATO council. French Premier Georges Pom pidou, who delivered the address of welcome to the SEATO minis ters, took the line later taken by Rusk and British Foreign Secre tary Lord Home in calling for a joint struggle against subversion in Southeast Asia. Most immediate concern focused on Laos, the tiny kingdom whose neutrality was guaranteed by the 11X12 Geneva conference. Faction al fighting has broken out again in Laos, and the three-faction coa lition government was shaken se verely by the recent assassination of neutralist Foreign Minister Quinim Pholsena. The situation in Laos is believed so precarious that Britain and I Russia, as cochairmen of the Ge neva conicrence, are conaidcrin diplomalic intervention. Ur 'tk?&R SECIION OEK.RCF.AI.0 DOCUUeMTJp Euaniic.oaM. fi m tinue the meeting at the high school. On the agenda a1 the school board meeting there will be reading of petitions in reference to Mrs. Helen Hoffman, Latin teacher at KU. Mrs. Hoffman has reached re tirement age and was notified by the administration that her con tract could not be renewed. The petition signers will appear to pro test that decision. Also on the agenda will be a discussion on KU commencement exercises and the adopted split schedule and modification. Ml Klamath Falls residents who have questions concerning the proposed school budgets should attend the hearings to have their questions answered by members of the administration. Residents will get a chance to vote on the budgets May 6. Falling Wall Kills Three MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich, (UPD-The spectacle for bystand ers watching firemen battling a blaze turned to horror when corner of a two-story structure and a marquee collapsed Sunday, killing three and injuring 14. "It was a horrible sight," Ber nard Smith, a local free lance photographer said. He said his at tenlion was first attracted by thunder from the falling wall and canopy. "People were buried under the bricks with just an arm or a limb sticking out," he said. "Those who managed to escape,' he added, "rushed back to help pull the injured and dead free of the rubble." "They didn't have a chance Mrs. Marian Hyplihan. who lives across the street said. "The whole building appeared to be in flames People were screaming and scrambling to get away." The tragedy struck hardest at Central Michigan University which has its campus adjacent to the structure. K t Slated CCiIPe 2v' K KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, ClUcMamma Behnds Canadians Go To Polls; U.S. Relations At Stake MONTREAL (UPD-Eight mil lion Canadians- were expected to vote today in a national election; which may prove crucial in U.S. Canadian relations particularly in the area of nuclear arms for hemispheric defense. Members of Parliament will be Red Moon Shot Said A Failure MOSCOW tUPl) -The govern. ment's unusual reticence to give details of the performance of Lu nik 4 led to growing speculation here today that the Soviet moon rocket was at least a partial fail ure. The 3,128-pound rocket was re ported to have passed within 5,270 miles of the moon Saturday and then spun toward the earth. It is now expected to go into an elon-. gated orbit around the earth be fore moving into the gravitational field of the sun. Western observers here said that the feeling that the rocket's task was not successful had been bolstered by the lack of. fanfare It is customary for the Soviets to withhold information about space failures. Western observers said Russian scientists may release more in formation on the Lunik's mission and performance after they have had' more time to process any data on hand. In Britain, Sir Bernard Lovell, director of the Jodrell Bank Tracking Station near Manchester, said Saturday night he was "quite certain something went wrong. Truck Tax Bill Okayed By Senate SALEM (UPI) - The Senate voted unanimously today to revise Oregon's truck mile tax schedule as proposed by Gov. Mark Hat field. The bill raises the weight mile tax for smaller trucks, and re duces the levy for large trucks. Tlie "flat fee" option feature for log truckers was increased 15 per cent. The bill now goes to the House. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Yturri, R-Ontano, said the meas ure had the approval of the High way Department and the truck ing industry. He said while the revised ice schedule would indicate a $500, 000 a year loss in revenues, in creased use of highways by trucks would offset the loss. He pointed out the revenue from the weight mile tax in 1062 was $16.7 million, and due to in creased volume should be about $17.5 million this year. The weight mile tax is designed so truckers will pay about one- third the cost of highway const ruction. Truckers have long argued they were paying more than one- third the cost. Musa Declares Tax Opposition SALEM lUPH There is Rrass roots opposition to any major in crease in state income taxes. Sen ate President Ben Musa, D-The Dalles, said today. He said "The Ways and Means Committee has a profound under standing of what the people back home want," and added "the leg islators are closer to the people than anyone else. He said the House Tax Com mittee was "not treating lightly" a proposed increase in income lacs. He likened the present legis latuie to a farmer's activity "nothing to show until harvest time." MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1963 chosen from 265 districts spread across a country with an area almost as big as Europe and a population no larger than Califor nia. The polls opened at 8 a.m. local time and will close at 7 p.m. First results are expected about p.m., EST. Under the parliamentary system tlte new government and its prime minister will be decided by which political party wins the most seatsi ! the House of Commons. Of the four parties in the run ning, only two Prime Minister lohn Diefenbaker's Conservatives and tlie Liberals, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester B. Pearson have enough national support to win. The Liberals, ac cording to the pollsters, are slight favorites. If, as most pundits predict. neither major party wins a clear majority, the key to the new Par liament like the last ono will lie with two "splinter" groups, the right-wing Social Credit and the Socialist New Democrats. These minority parties have regional strength, but no real national fol lowing. They held the balance of power last June after an indecisive elec tion which saw the Conservatives fall from a record 208-seat victory 1958 to a shaky 116-mcmber minority. The Liberals won' 100 seats, the Social Credit party cap tured 30 and the New Democrats' won 19. Relations w ith the United States. particularly with the Kennedy ad ministration, and the sensitive question of nuclear arms had been in the forefront of the hectic six- week election campaign that end ed officially on Saturday. un nuclear weapons, the ex treme positions are represented by the Liberal pledge to "keep our commitments" and obtain U.S. warheads for Canadian forces! at home and with NATO in Eu- ope; and by tlie New Democrats flat opposition to atomic weapons in any place in any form. In between are the Conserva tives, whose government acquired nuclear-oriented weapons sys tem during the past five years. hut appeared reluctant to accept the warheads; and the Social Creditors, whose national leader Robert N. Thompson would leave! the issue to a non-partisan Com mons committee, but whose French Canadian deputy is op posed to nuclear arms. This issue has dominated Cana- dian politics ever since the U.S. V BEAUTIFUL SPRUCE DONATED Gary Woodrinq, right, director, Klamath Falls Parks and Recreation Department, accepts a 20-foot Norway Sprue traa for Kit Carson (Kiwanisl Park donated by the Linkvilla Kiwanii Club Friday. Linkvill membtri, from left, art Walt Bingham, Tom Odin, Bud Eajtburn and Woodring. 1 Telephone State Department issued a state ment criticizing Diefenbaker's nu clear policy and setting off the crisis that culminated in defeat of the minority Conservative gov ernment and the calling of the election. Goldwater Urges Aid For Exiles WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., wants the United States to help train Cuban exiles and support them with an American airlift in attacks on their homeland. Goldwater, denouncing Presi dent Kennedy's Cuban policy as too timid, also said Sunday that if necessary he would support an invasion sponsored by the Organ ization of American States to oust the Russians from Cuba. The GOP senator said, however he did not favor an invasion now Instead, he proposed an economic blockade of Cuba and the train ing of exiles for sabotage, cspion- ;c, or an attack on the island. In a television interview Gold water said Kennedy's policy on Cuba was "too frightened." He predicted that it would help the GOP defeat the President for re election, saying only a miracle would enable Kennedy to w l.n next year.' ' "" "'' ' "' '"' , He appeared on NBC's Issues and Answers. Goldwater criticized the Presi dent's efforts to prevent exile raids on Cuba from U.S. territory lie took issue with Kennedy's stalcment that tliey are meffec live. Goldwater said the refugees "killed a few Russians the other day" and that "doesn't hurt." Lashing out at Washington "cry babies," Goldwater disagreed with those "who say anything we do against Cuba will result in nuclear holocaust." He said Russia would not risk war over Cuba and any "trouble" could be cleaned up In two weeks. Goldwater, sounding more and more like a presidential candidate predicted that Cuba would be a major issue in the 19(14 campaign. (Jf ( av mrjt ; $ .. II i fflVml TU 4-8111 No. 7110 foreign Aid WASHINGTON (UPD- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said today that the nation is get- ling ils money's worth from the $4.5 billion foreign aid program, Testifying before tlie House Foreign Affairs Committee, Me Namara said foreign aid was a sound investment that "yields ex cellent dividends to the security, foreign policy and general welfare of tlie United States." There is no easing of cold war tensions that would justify cut-; ting the military assistance phase of the aid program, McNamara said. Pointing to the Chinese attack in India, the war in Viet Nam, and Communist infiltration in the Congo, McNamara said the inci dents point up communism s continuing drives" to dominate the world. Any w ithdrawal from tlie world scene by the United Slates, Mc Namara said, would not strengthen the U.S. position but rather would be "slow suicide. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also strongly supported the mili tary aid request, noting that lie saw no slackening of tensions. Firm To Get Despite Plane Dispute WASHINGTON (UPI) - The De- fense Department is preparing to make a $23 million payment to General Dynamics Corp. in furth er evidence that (t has no inten tion of reversing award of the TFX warplane contract. Reliable sources said the check would be handed over to General Dynamics shortly to cover major costs of developing the controver sial piano under the agreement now under fire trom Senate inves tigators. With the spotlight -on the Son- ato inquiry and a new cost study! that Chairman John L. McClclian, D-Ark., has asked the General, Accounting Office to make, the Pentagon asserted that develop ment of the plane was going for ward as authorized last Novem ber. "Actions are being accom plished on a programmed basts and in accordance with the master' schedule," the department said. In answer to inquiries by United Press International the Pentagon said the next payment to General Dynamics "is in the process of re lease and will be approximately $23 million." McClclian is investigating why Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc Namara and the Navy and Air orce secretaries overrode mill ; H r y V j Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight and Tues day with 40 per cent shower prob ability tonight. Total rain about .05 inch. Wind south 5-15 so.p.h. Low tonight 24-. Highs Tuesday 50-55. Outlook Wednesday: Pat Uy cloud-ly. Indeed, in some areas of the world, new areas of conflict ap pear likely with which the United States will be obliged to reckon in the future," he said. Other congressional news: Youth Employment: The Senate is expected to begin consideration this week of the bill to provide work opportunities for youths be tween 16 and 21 years old. Wilderness: Debate on a bill to set aside 36 million acres of pub lic lands into a national wilder--ncss preservation system is sched uled in the Senate. The bill pro vides for linds still untouched by man to be added to national parks by the President after rec ommendation by either tne Inter ior or Agriculture secretary. Bulletin SALEM (UPI) A 4-cent a ' package cigarette tax designed to raise $15 million to the next bi ennium was defeated 33-24 Mon day In the Oregon House. Rep. Clinton Halght, D-Baker, changed his Vote to "no" In order to be able to seek reconsideration. Big Check tary recommendations in select ing General Dynamics instead of the Boeing Co., for the largest fighter aircraft program since World War II. Military authorities, including Air Force chief Gen. Curtis Le May and Navy chief Adm. George W. Anderson wanted Boeing to produce tlie plane at its Wichita, han., plant. Tlie military witnesses before McClellan's subcommittee have agreed, however, that they would not advocate reversing the Pen tagon decision now, Tlie Defense Department said In reply to questions that General Dynamics' Convair Division at Fort Worth, Tex., had no orders to "slow down or change pace" Ion its contract. The total program calls for 1.700 airplanes 1,500 for Die Air Force and 200 for the. Navy and eventually may cost $6.5 billion. Bike Mishap Hurts Youth A 13-year-old Klamath Falls boy received minor injuries about 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon, when he drove his bicycle out of a driveway on Lakeshore Drive and into the path of an eastbound automobile driven by Charles Nealy, 3635 Pelican Street, state police have reported. The operator of the bicycle was Jeff Molatorc, 820 Pacific Terrace, who was taken by Peace Ambu lance to Klamath Valley Hospital, where he was treated for a leg bruise and a face laceration and then released. The youth told police that ho drove Hie bike out of the drive way onto the road and did not see the automobile which struck him until after tlie colli sion. Police said the driveway is ob scured from the road and cannot be observed by traffic approach ing from the east. Missile Shot i Successful CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD The Navy today successfully fired an advanced version of its long-range Polaris A3 missile 2, 000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. The rocket blasted from its launching pad on Cape Canaveral and nosed Into its planned target area less than 20 minutes later, Tho Navy called the shot a "sic. nificant success." It was the first flight of the "preprototype tacti cal" version of tlie Polaria A3. The Polaris A3 Is the mightiest rocket ever designed for firing from submerged nuclear subma rines. It will be abfe to strike at land targets up to 2,880 miles away. The 30-foot rocket today was fired from a land-based pad.
