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By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, a reader has
just called on the phone to report
that her teen-age daughter thinks
she heard on the air this morn
ing a broadcast to the effect that
some Southern schools are con
sidering asking their legislature
to pass a law requiring that the
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
be called in and rewritten in
"good grammar." She says she
would like to know if any
one else heard the broadcast.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
What I'd like to know is what
Mark Twain's immortal master
piece would sound like if it was
rewritten in what people of that
ilk would call good grammar.
An amended bill for CONTROL
OF STRAY CATS was approved
yesterday by the senate military
affairs committee of the Oregon
legislature.
The bill passed the house earli
er. As revised by the senate com
mittee, it now authorizes coun
ties to operate programs for
control of stray cats. Other pro
visions were deleted.
Question:
How about an amendment pro
viding for control of the charac
ters who are too tenderhearted to
drown or chloroform or otherwise
painlessly put out of the way lit
ters of kittens that they regard
as surplus and so put them in a
sack and carry them out into the
country and dump them out on
the roadside to STARVE TO
DEATH?
Another question:
What the Sam Hill business is it
of the military affairs commit
tee of the senate of the Oregon leg
islature to draft laws for the
control of stray cats?
Are stray cats coming to be a
military problem?
From Eugene:
Teen-agers here are playing with
death by taking injections of,
chest rub medications into then
veins, the Lane county health de
partment warned yesterday. It
reported that three cases of
teen-agers using this "new form
of thrill-seeking" have been re
ported recently by the Eugene
police department.
Dr. Edward Goldblatt, of the
county health department, said
this is a "non-addicting method
of achieving roughly the same
results as are obtained from nar
cotics."
tin tit
Let's not get too badly excited
-YET.
Remember the cornsilk cigar
ettes out behind the barn?
If it's forbidden, it's attractive.
If it's DANGEROUS, it has to
be tried.
But-
1 can't help remembering a
teen-ager who visited me in my
office a few days ago. She was
born blind. She is now 13 just
beginning her teens. She reads
Braille. She writes Braille on a
special typewriter. On that morn
ing, she had just finished reading
the Braille edition of the Reader's
Digest from cover to cover.
She speaks German and
French in a beginning way. She
is interested in music. She
WANTS TO BE A NEWSPA
PER WOMAN.
For this teen-ager, there is no
BOREDOM. For her, it is a fas
cinating world, and she is inter
cstcd in all the wonderful things
that are going on in it.
1 wish some of these thrill
seeking teen-agers could talk to
her. It would do them good.
Diem Moves
To End War
SAIGON, Viet Nam IUPH
President Ngo Dinh Diem pro
claimed a sweeping "open arms"
campaign today to induce Com
munist Viet Cong guerrillas to
lay down their guns and end the
civil war in South Vict Nam.
Diem made the appeal in a na
tionwide broadcast. He promised
clemency, family reunions, finan
cial help and government jobs to
guerrilla fighters and their sym
pathizers who come over to tlie
government side.
The campaign coincided with
the first anniversary of the stra
tegic hamlet program which is
designed to frustrate Communist
subversion. The program is
backed by the United States,
which has provided 12.000 mili
tary advisers and massive finan
cial aid in support of the Diem
government.
The strategic hamlet program
aims to concentrate South Vietna
mese farmers in fortified ham
Ict5, isolated from the Viet Cong
guerrilla" attempting to over
throw the government.
The government says 6.000 of
the projected 11.000 strategic
hamlets hav been compietea.
Weather
. Klimcm Filti, TulcUhf Lifctvww
! Ptnii irtr tA.At and itwwt
it thawtrt tMtnff Mntffnl nj in
creasing again Thurtday atttrnaon. Wtst
any windt S-IS m.a.M. Coolar teniant.
lews Jft-21. Slightly warmer Thursday!
nigh 43.
High ytsterday is
Lew this merainf u
High year aga 1i
Low year age jl
Prtop. past 14 heurs .91
Siace Jan. 1 4.47
Same Parian last year ijl
Tax Bills A wait
Action By House
SALEM (I IM) The House mittet in hopes it .would die there.
tabled, and thus virtually killed,!
a sales tax bill lyiday without a
vote to spare, clearing the w ay j
for consideration of a major rev
enue raising package based on
income tax Friday.
The 3-cent sales tax was tabled
31-29, after sponsors tried to get it
safely back to committee and
opponents clouded the issue by
agreeing to send it back to cf)m-
Breakdown
Said Near
In South
WASHINGTON' l'PI - Miss
issippi is so close to a "complete
breakdown of law and order" that
the U.S. Civil Rights Commission
wants President Kennedy to cut
ulf all federal funds to the state.
The commission told Kennedy
Tuesday that "open and flagrant
violation of constitutional guaran
tees.. .has reached the point ofi
crisis" in Mississippi.
The bombings, shootings, fail
ings and withholding of federal
surplus foods for children "af
fronts the conscience of the na
tion." the commission said.
The commission praised the ad
ministration's "strong and vigor
ous" prosecution of lawbreakers
in Mississippi. But it said that
the "pattern of unlawful activity
shows no sign of abating" and
the time has come for tougher
action.
The investigation and advisory
group suggested that the Presi
dent cut off all federal funds go
ing to the state. In the year end
ed June 30, 1SXJ2, these came to
StioO million in the form of grants.
in-aid, military contracts, civilian
and military payrolls and loan
programs.
The commission added these
complaints:
In the nine years after the
Supreme Court school desegrega
tion decision, Mississippi has
taken no step to comply."
More than 100 complaints have
been received since October, 1902,
alleging denial of constitutional
rights in Mississippi.
"Citizens of the United States
have been shot, set upon by vi
cious dogs, beaten and otherwise
terrorized because they sought toj
vote. This referred to incidents!
in Greenwood, Miss.
Students have been fired upon.
ministers have been assaulted and
the home of tlie vice chairman
oi the commission's advisory com
mittee in Mississippi has been
bombed.
Pair To Face
Fraud Charges
PORTLAND (UPI)-Dist. Atty
George Van Hoomissen said today
extradition proceedings were be
ing started against two persons
arrested at Seattle in connection
with an investigation into accident
insurance policies sold to many
Oregon school districts.
Kenneth J. Randall, 44, and
Sarah Ann Chaffee, 41, were ar
rested in Seattle on a secret in
dictment returned here charging
alteration of an insurance policy
w ith intent to defraud. The charge
involved a policy issued to the
David Douglas school district.
Authorities said the same agen
cy here sold policies to 38 districts
in Oregon. The probe began when
the California Life Insurance Co
complained that policies sold to
school districts by agents here
gave broader coverage than it had i
approved.
Reapportionment
SALEM i UPI' The House andiHouse committee rejected it 4-5.
Senate committees on constilu- Th Hr-aHlrw k left the inmmii.
tional revision hit an impasseL
legislative apportionment.
Both voted to reject the
plan proposed by the Commission
on Constitutional Revision, which
would hAve brought Oregon closer
than er to "one man, one vote."
Then the committees considered
the more moderate plan advo
cated by Rep. Stafford Hanscll,
R-Hermiton.
The Senate committee voted
I in favor of the Hansell plan. Tbelmittecs oo plan (or handing out,
GST
Price Tea Cents 24 Pages
The House Tax Committee
brought the bill to the floor In
hopes it would be killed.
SALEM lUPl'-The House Tax
Committee completed its major
task of the session Tuesday by
sending its big income tax and
cigarette tax bills to the floor for
probable action Friday.
Tlie committee also sent out the
bank tax bill and the local budget
bill. It tabled a bill that would
have put a partial property tax
on non-profit fraternal and social
groups.
The income and cigarette tax
measures are the committee's big
revenue-raising package. The for
mer is designed to provide $35
million in new revenues and the
latter $15 million.
The cigarette tax was rejected
back by the committee to wail
for the rest of the package. If it
fails again, rales in the income
tax bill could be raised to make
up the difference.
The income tax bill imposes
two kinds of tax. One is a net tax
for all earning above $500. in or
der to pick up new low-bracket
taxpayers. The other is a gradu
ated tax, with deductions and de
pendents taken into account.
A key revenue-raising feature is
elimination of the deduction for
the federal income tax. Other de
ductions, however, are retained,
and the standard deduction is
doubled from 5 to 10 per cent to
avoid much long form filing.
Instead of exemptions, the bill
would grant credits against the
final tax bill.
The cigarette tax bill calls for
a 4-ccnt a pack tax.
The bank tax bill redefines fi
nancial institutions in order to tax
banks at 9 per cent. It is retro
active to 1057 to validate taxes
the banks have paid under pro
test.
The local budget bill,' subject of
many hours of work, revamps lo
cal budgeting procedures.
As for taxing non-prolit groups,
the committee earlier bowed to
church and hospital pressures and
deleted Uiem from the bill. Fra-j
ternal and social groups demand
ed the same treatment. Most com-!
mittee members agreed the mat
ter should be the subject of an in-j
terim study.
Lands The House passed and
sent to the Senate a bill to enable
upland owners to acquire title to
filled-in submerged lands in riv
ers, harbors and navigable lakes.
School Study
Report Near
TULELAKE Results of a sur
vey covering grievances that
have developed in the Tulelake
Joint Union High School over the
past two years will be made pub
lic during a meeting of a par
ents' study group in the high
school building Monday night,
April 22.
The survey, sought by the high
school faculty in an effort to de
termine causes of misunder
standings, lack of discipline, un
favorable student reaction to ad
ministration and faculty author
ity, and other problems has been
completed by Erwin Howett, Sac
ramento, representing- the Cali
fornia Teachers' Association.
The request for the survey was
made by the faculty through the
Professional Relations Committee
of the East Siskiyou County
Teachers Association.
The request could have been
made by any group, parents,
members of the high school board
or the faculty.
The 22-pagc report has not been
made
public. The meeting is
lopen to interested persons.
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lives:
-The
House could reconsider
I and go along w ith the Senate on
the Hansel! plan
The Senate could reconsider.
perhaps finding a common ground
with the House in Oregon's pres
ent plan.
The proposed new constitution
could go to the floor without
7-2!agrecmnt between the two com-
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BEGINNERS STARRED The first science fair for students of the Merrill Elementary
School and Merrill High School developed some excellent entries. Among the junior
division Gold Award winners were, left to right, Robert Trotman, Pat Ratliff, Tom Brit
ton, Karen Fairfield, Patty Hood and Louann Reeves. Not shown Gold Award winners
in the high school senior division are Betty Ann Chapman, and Jean Lyman, both
iuniors. The winning entries will be exhibited in the regional science fair at Ferguson
School in Klamath Falls this weekend. I Story on Page 4-A. I
Negroes
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. UPI
Negroes planned to march en
masse to the Jcflcrson County
courthouse todav in a demonstra-
School Jobs
Given Okay
SALEM il'PI' More than $1
million worth of Oregon Program
projects involving many schools
and colleges were approved Tues
day by the Stale Board of Educa
tion.
The projects were taken from
sumo $1.5 million in-proposals
made by the participating schools'
and colleges.
Two projects are new. In one
Stanford University is working
with Marshall High School on a
new concept of using IBM equip
ment for high school scheduling.
In the other, the State System
of Higher Education is working
on a program involving teacher
research.
Participants include Beaverlon.
Bethel, Coos Bay, Corvallis, Dal
las, David Douglas, Eastern Ore
gon College, Eugene, La Grande,
Lake Oswego, Lewis and Clark,
Linfield. McMinnville Medford,
Milwaukie No. 1, Milwaukie U1I5,
Newberg, Oregon College of Ed
ucation. Oregon State University,
Pendleton, Portland, Portland
State, Roseburg, Salem, Southern
Oregon College Springfield, State-
Marshal, Staytmi, University of
Oregon.
State Answers
Freeman Plea
WASHINGTON (UPl'-The state
of Oregon has filed an answer to
an apieal of Jeannace June Free
man, 21, condemned to die lor
throwing a 6-year-old boy to his
death in the Crooked River Gorge
in 1961.
Attorneys for Miss Freeman
claimed in her appeal to the U.S.
Supreme Court that she was not
brought before a magistrate for
a preliminary hearing and that
statements by her admitted at the
trial were obtained during a pe
riod of illegal detention when she
was deprived of assistance of a
lawyer.
The state's answer was filed by
John M. Cnpcnhaver, Redmond
attorney, who was special prose
cutor in the case, and Jefferson
County Disl. Atty. Warren Al
bright. They said she was under
lawful detention and had full legal
rights.
Stymies Revise Committee
legislative seats, leaving the ques
tion to be ironed out if the docu
ment gets by tlie House.
Oregon presently is first in the
nation in allocating legislative
seats on a population basis. The
maximum possible disparity in
voter strength is 3-1.
The new proposal would have
reduced the maximum disparity
to 21.
Under tlie Hanell plan, how
ever, it would be possible in some
circumstances for one senator or
representative to represent more
con?
Ik A
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
"l") )l ;
Plan Voter March
lion launching
tion drive.
a voter rcgistra-1
A top aide to the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr.. jailed leader of
an anti-segregation campaign that
began 15 days ago and has
brought more than 275 arrests,
said the prospective voters would
form at a Negro church and
march to the voting registrar's
olfice. The registrar's office is lo
cated in the courthouse, across a
park from city hall.
The Rev. F. L. Shuttleswnrth.
treasurer
of King's Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLCi and a civil rights worker
here since 1955, said plans for the
drive were made during a two-
day slowdown in other protest
cfiorts.
-Shuttlesworth said the drive for
Negro voter rogis'tation was in
itiated because the vote "is the
big ax" against segregation.
But another King aide who re
fused to be identified told United
Press International tlie drive was
changing directions while the
group continues legal attacks
against a circuit court injunction
barring King and his lieutenants
from leading or planning demon
strations. Nine Negroes were jailed here
Tuesday in protest actions at sev
eral downtown stores. Five were
arrested for picketing a variety
store, two on trespass charges
Nikita May
Visit Cuba
MOSCOW (UPD Premier Fi
del Castro's planned trip to Mos
cow may be followed by a visit
to Cuba by Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev, informed sources
said today.
The Soviet leader has a long
standing invitation to Havana, but
it was believed he does not want
to take it up until Castro calls
here first.
Tuesday's announcement in Ha
vana that the Cuban premier
would be coming to Moscow at
an unspecified date appeared to
open tlie way for a reciprocal
visit by Khrushchev.
Tiie official Soviet press today
combined a welcome to Castro
with articles marking the second
anniversary of the abortive U.S.
backed Bay of Pigs invasion of
Cuba.
The Communist party newspa
per Pravda published a front page
picture of Castro and an editorial
claiming "The Soviet people with
all its heart will welcome on its
territory the head of the revo
lutionary government of tne Cuban
republic."
than three times the population of I The committees agreed on an
another. other proposal: To remove the
Sen. Anthony Ylurri. R-Ontario,
who moved for the Hansell plan,
said unless an acceptable plan
were found he and many others
would try to defeat the new con
stitution on that one issue.
"The very least we should do is
leave the language exactly as it
is in tlie present constitution," he
said.
It was noted tlie committees
could tend 1 separate alternative
to the people outside the proposal
contained in a new document.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1963
for attempting a sit-in. and two
more on charges of violating fire
laws by smoking while attempting
to integrate a lunch counter.
Town Falls
To Laos Reds
VIENTIANE, Laos UP1 Pro-
Communist troops have captured
a third key Neutralist town on the
Plain of Jars in a drive tli.it has
made a shambles of the Laotian
cease-lire agreement, inhumed
sources reported today.
The sources said Neutralist
troops were left surrounded anil
outnumbered in the strategic Plain
of Jars by the fall of three key
towns in 72 hours to forces of the
pro-Communist Pathet Lao.
They said the latest town to fall
was Ban Banwn where two com
panies of Neutralist troops hadl
been holding out for days against
overwhelming odds. The fate of
the Neutralist defenders was not
known.
The other two villages seized
were Ban Kosi and Dong Danh.
All three towns are on the road
from the leftist stronghold of
Xieng Khouang to the plain.
Ban Ban is about 30 miles north
east of Xieng Khouang.
The loss of the three villages
left Neutralist Commander Gen.
Kong Le and his forces surround
ed in Phone Savan, about a 20-
milo drive from Xieng Khouang.
Premier Prince Souvanna Phou-
ma cut short his celebration of
the Buddhist new year at the roy
al capital of Luang Prabang and
returned to Vientiane to study re
ports on the new fighting that
tightened a trap around Neutral
isl forces in central Laos.
Valley Smudges
To Save Crops
MEDFORD (UPD-The longest
and heaviest heating of the sea
son occurred in the Rogue Val
ley's pear orchards Monday night
and Tuesday morning, as temper
atures dropped to 24 degrees in
the coldest places.
The heating consumed some
800.000 gallons of oil, at a cost
estimated at $125,000.
About 1,000 high school boys
were kept busy keeping the oil
burning heaters going.
The pear blossoms are in the
petal drop stage this week, and
any damage which may have oc
curred was difficult to assess.
Most orchardists were confident
lhat heating prevented any seri
ous loss.
prohibition against lotleriet from
the constitution and put it into
the statutes.
Sen. Thomas Mahoney, D-Port-
land, said it was ridiculous to
have a ban on lotteries in tlie con
stitution when Oregon permits
gambling in the form of horse
and dog race belting.
The committees decided the pro
posed constitution lets tlie slate
lease offshore lands for extraction
of minerals without any change
needed In the language.
Telephone
All Big Steel Firms Unite
In Assault On Price Line
NEW YORK ( UPI '-Bethlehem
Steel, the nation's second largest
producer, today announced selec
tive price increases averaging a
little more than $5 a ton. making
big steel unanimous in breaking
Hie steel price line.
The announcement of hikes in
the price of three sheet and strip
steel items by Bethlehem Presi
dent A.B. Homer followed closely
on the lieels of National Steel
Corporation's decision to up (he
price of selected products an aver
age of $ti a ton. National is the
nation's filth-ranked producer.
The firms apparently do not
foresee a slapduun from Prcsi
dent Kennedy similar to the one
lhat made big steel back down
on across-the-board price increas
es a year ago. The nation s larg
est producer. U.S. Steel Corp..
raised its prices Tuesday, and
Bethlehem's announcement made
unanimous big steel's decision to
try Kennedy on selective in
creases.
Altogether, nine steel firms have
announced price increases
Bethlehem said its price
adjustments would go into effect
immediately. National will tag its
products witli higher prices start
ing Thursday.
Homer said the new Bethlehem
prices represent an increase ol
about 1 per cent in the total bill
ing value of all rolled steel prod
ucts sold by Bethlehem. He snid
the decision lo raise prices was
made "after due consideration of
market conditions and cost and
profit performance."
His announcement represented a
change in position since Wheeling
Steel made the first break in steel
prices eight days ago. A few
hours before the Wheeling an
Cubans Offer
Body Return
HAVANA ( UPI 1 Havana news
papers said today tlie Cuban Red
Cross will return to his family the
body of pilot Riley W. Sham-
burger, one of four Americans!
killed in the 19111 Bay of Pigs
invasion.
The press reports added lhat the
Cuban government had invited tlie
mother of tlie pilot, Mrs. Riley W.
Shamburger Sr., Birmingliam,
Ala., to come to Cuba to identify
the remains of her son.
(In Birmingham, Mrs. Shambur
ger became hysterical on hearing
the Havana report. A neighbor
said the mother "would never ac
cept" that he had been killed.
"She's just in a terrible slate,"
the neighbor said.
(Shamburger was flying with
three other Birmingham area men
when their plane crashed on or
about April 9, 1961. The other
men were later identified as Wade
C. Gray, an electronics technici
an; Thomas Ray and Lee F
Baker.
(Shamhurgor, a test pilot, was
apparently at the controls of the
plane when it went down during
the ill-fated invasion. They were;
flying a C46 cargo plane when one
engine went out.)
Widows of the four men re
ceived $225 each every two weeks
since the men were lost. The
checks were drawn on Bankers
Trust Co. of New York and an
attorney said the money came
from a Central American anti
Castro group.
Girls See
Bloodmobile
A group of 14 Macdoel, Calif.,
Camp Fire Girls, "future blood
donors," their leader, Mrs. Rob
ert Chcyne and assistant leader,
Mrs. Ray Rogers, saw the Red
Cross Bloodmobile operation
Tuesday at the Elks Temple.
They were given a tour to ac
quaint them with piocedurc in
tlie sharing of blood by Chief.
Nurse Dorothy Johanscn of Port
land. The first day operation was
highly gratifying, according fo ex
ecutive secretary of the Klamath
Basin Chapter Virginia Dixon.
In spite of miserable weather, Zi'iO
donors appeared to give 243 pints
of blood between 2:30 and 7:30
p.m.
Excellent responses were made
by PTAs, and business and in
dustrial groups.
The April operation was con
cluded Wednesday on tlie Oregon
Technical Institute campus.
TU 4-8111 No. 7118
nouncement Homer said "there is
considerable doubt in my mind
whether the market at this point
would support a price increase in
steel."
Of course, you never know un
til you try it." he said.
Todav Bethlehem, the only big
steel holdout, Iried it.
Giant U.S. Steel, which bore the
brunt of President Kennedy's
wrath last year when the indus
try tried to raise prices, announc
ed it would make selective in
creases of $4.85 a ton on flat
rolled steel which constitutes ap
proximately 29 per cent of its
sales.
Fourth- ranked Jones & Laugh-
tin Slcel Corp., sixth-ranked Arm-
co Steel Corp., and eighth-ranked
Inland Steel Corp., announced
their own increases within hours
of tlie nation's largest producer.
It remained only for Bethlehem
Steel, ranked No. 2, to join the
other four top producers in the
price scramble. Third-ranked Re
public Steel announced its hikes
Monday.
One of Hie industry's leading
trade publications, Iron Age mag
azine, said the present market
can absorb the price increases be
Exiles Plan
'Embarrassing' Paper
NEW YORK (UPIi-Cuban exile
sources said today the Cuban Rev
olutionary Council w ill defy Wash
ington pressure and make public
10.000-word Cuban white paper
described as "embarrassing" lo
the Kennedy administration.
The 23-pagc document, a copy
of which was given Washington
last April 5, will be made public
al an open meeting of the council
in Miami 'Thursduy 'night, the.
sources said.
Exile leaders said the Kennedy
administration threatened Council
President Jose Miro Cardona with
immediate deportation if the docu
nient is made public, and also
said no council member ever
would be received in Washington
again.
Washington spokesmen denied
both allegations. But administra
tion officials said the United Stales
might end its financial support of
the council, estimated at $2.4 mil
lion annually.
The council has been recognized
by the U.S. government as repre
sentntive of the 250,000 Cuban ex
i'es here.
The crisis in relations between
the council and Washington erupt
ed last week when Miro resigned1
as council president. His resigna
tion was rejected. At that time
however, tlie council voted against
publication of it-s white paper.
Exile leaders said today the
council in a secret meeting last
Diefenbaker
Resigns Job
OTTAWA. Canada UPP -
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker,
07, today handed his resignation,
elfective Monday noon, to Cana
dian Governor-general George Va-1
nier.
The move opened the way for
Vanier to call on Liberal leader
1-ester B. Pearson, 65, to form
the new government, although
Diefenbaker declined to confirm
that he had "recommended" this
course lo the queen's rcpresenta
live.
It was expected, however, thai
the governor-general would "in
vile" Pearson within 24 hours to
become Canada's 14th prime min
ister. Pearson and his new cabi
net probably will be sworn Into
office by the time Diefenbakcr's
resignation takes effect.
Diefenbaker, whose Conserva
tive parly won 94 seats in the
April 8 election to 130 for Pear
son's Liberals, handed his resig
nation to Vanier during a 20-min
ute meeting in the governor-general's
upstairs bedroom at Kidcau
Hall.
Vanier, 74, is confined to bed
after suffering a minor heart at
tack last week.
Diefenbaker, a prairie lawyer
who lirst assumed power in June,
1957, emerged from Government
House to announce details of his
resignation plans and confirm
speculation that he will remain
on as opposition leader in the
new 20tli Parliament.
Weather
AGRICULTURAL PORICAST
trtlY ctoudy tonight tod Thursday.
North wtsttrly winds M m p h. Hrd
frwit tonight. bw IS?. Highs Thurs
day SI. Outlook Friday partly cloudy
nd wirmtr with thowtrs, ilght-inch
ml ttmptroturt 49.
cause conditions are vastly dif
ferent from a year ago when
Kennedy raised bitter objections.
Inventories are low, demand is
brisk and picking up and the la
bor situation is quiet, tlie maga
zine said.
The raises were expected to
make the United Steelworkers
Union more determined in its de
mands for higher wages. It has
the right to reocii contracts with
11 leading steel companies any
time alter April 30 and can
strike 90 days after reopening it
it docs not get what it wants.
President Kennedy conferred
with his economic advisers at the
vacation White House in Palm
Beach, Fla., on the latest moves
by the industry. There was a pos
sibility ho would amplify his re
cent statement that while he was
opposed to across-the-board in
creases by the steel makers, he
did not believe "selective price
adjustments up or down" were out
of line.
Apparently taking him at his
word, U.S. Steel and others made
their selections, although U.S.
Steel's increases were lower than
the $5 $7 general range of hikes
announced by other firms.
To Publish
Monday night decided by majority
vole to make it public in view
of what they termed Washington
efforts to discredit Miro.
Miro reiterated today that
"under pressure of the Depart
ment of State" he would again
present Ills resignation at Thurs
day's public council session.
Ho again chafged bluntly that
"the Department' of State has vio
lated its agreements with the Cu
ban Revolutionary Council."
Miro said the State Department
"has moved all tlie elements with
in its unlimited powers in a vio
lent campaign of discredit against
my person unparalleled in the his
tory of tills great nation.
It (tlie State Department)
forces me to defend myself," Miro
said. "I shall do so."
JFK Ends
Vacation
PALM BEACH, Fla. IUPD-
President Kennedy wound tin a
seven-day Easter vacation today
lo return to Washington for con
sideration of matters including
steel prices and tlie future of the
NATO alliance.
Kennedy scheduled a 3 o.m.
EST takeoff aboard his Air Force
jet transport plane, leaving be
hind his pregnant wife, Jacque
line, to continue her holiday away
from the official hwly-burly of
the capital.
The President limed his depar
ture to follow an early afternoon
cruise aboard his yacht. Honey
Filz. Through five consecutive (
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ideal sunny weather. He was sur )
tanned and chipper in a brief en
counter Tuesday with newsni.!.
Other Brief Encounters '
There were some other brief
encounters when two Coast
Guard patrol boats, including one
assigned to guard the President,
sped offshore to observe two Rus
sian trawlers. Tho Cuba-bound
Soviet vessels, loaded with elec
tronic communications equipment,
were outside the three-mile con
tinental limit but within sight of
the shoreline which Included the
chief executive's ocean-front
home.
Kennedy planned to discuss
French-American relations in
Washington with Secretary of
Stale Dean Rusk, who was in
Paris for five days of talks last
week with Allied officials includ
ing President Charles de Gaulle.
Rusk was repoited to have
warmed relations with De Gaulle
but not by any means to have
won him over to U.S. proposals
tlie French leader has opposed.
Maintains Steel Silence
The White House maintained
firm silence about the parade of
"selective" price increases by
steel companies. But Kennedy
was keeping tabs on the situation
and awaiting a verdict by his
Council of Economic Advisers a$
to whether the boosts threatened,
Ids insistence upon "over-all price
stability."