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
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throuall Tuesday. Lew tonight 17. High
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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. ,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.