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COMP. MEII3PAPER SECriOM io7iw7g Coimvord Puzzle On Page 8 Today Make Springtime More Enji CM tl.fiP Oflt.LIBaART In Th i Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Salem this morning: The senate lias passed and sent to the governor a bill banning lie detector tests as a condition of employment. ??????? It's probably just as well. If you have an employee whose word you can't trust without the aid of a lie detector, you'd bet ter fire the guy, anyway. From San Francisco: The cost of living in San Fran cisco rose to a new all-time high in March 108.4 per cent of 1957- 59 prices sharply exceeding the nationwide rise to 106.2. the U.S Department of labor reported yes terday. The department s consumer price index for the San Francisco area was O S per cent higher than in December, 1962, I per cent above March, 1962, and 19.1 per cent higher than a decade ago. The Los Angeles index last month stood at 107.7 per cent of the 1957-59 level, Question: Is it all due to the high cost of living? Or do you reckon the high cost of LIVING IT UP might be part ly responsible? ' From Chicago: The claim of some rheumatics that their aching joints can "feel' an approaching storm received scientific verification yesterday Dr. Joseph Lee Hollander, a dis tinguished rheumatologist who has pioneered various types of physical and drug therapy (or the disease, reports he has produced the "weather effect" in arthritis sufferers living in a controlled climate chamber sealed off from normal outside influences. His experiments showed that the patients suffered a significant worsening of symptoms when there was a combination of ris ing humidity and falling baromet ric pressure. These are the fac tors, he adds, that prevail in na ture before any rainstorm. So- The next time your rheumatic knee aches and you say it's go ing to tain, don't let anybody laugh at you. Your knee knows what it's talk ing about. Let's be serious for a moment. Along with the lightener-uppers. there is this serious and signifi cant item in the news this morn ing: Nearly 4.000 employees of Kai er Steel Corporation will get i bonus of about W0 a man. or some 45 cents an hour, in the first monthly cost savings distri bution under Kaiser's new labor dan which involves automation The plan gives to workers each month about a third of (he cost savings realized over Kaiser s 1961 cost level. It guarantees CONTINUED JOBS, despite auto mation, which was extensively employed in the Kaiser operation during the month. Kaiser announces that during March, the first full month of effective operation of the new plan, cost savings amounted to $162.000 and the workers' share of the saving will he $.112,000 for 3.930 eligible employees. This is the interesting point ol the story: Automation can be made prof itable (or both employers and cm plovees. If it can be made to result in LOWER PRICES, it will be profitable (or CONSUMERS also. Money Bill Debate Set WASHINGTON (UPI - The Senate planned to begin debate today on a $14 billion catch-all money bill including a crackdown on lobbyists for Philippine dam age claims. No voting was expected on tlie bill before Tuesday. Chairman J. William Fulbright. D-Ark., of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged ap proval of a rider revising the lata Philippine War Damage Act to pay $73 million directly to the Philippine government, instead ot to individual claimants. The supplemental appropriations measure, already passed by the House, also included $450 million for President Kennedy's accelerat ed publ'C works program. The Foreign Relations Commit tee questioned Washington attor ney Ernest Schein. an associate of Philippine claims lobbyist John A. O'Uonnell. at length Thursd.iy on why Schein had not registered as a foreign lobbyist while spl't (ing fees with O Donne II. Weather Klamath Pilli, Tulalako and Llktvlfx erlly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Cooltr tonight, low n-tti warmar Sat urday wilt) hioh of SS. Waakand waalhar Indlcatas uniattlad conditions, warmer lamparaturaa. and chanca lor ahowari on Sunday. High ytilcrday as Low this morning 3) High year ago si Low year ago 31 Praclp. past 24 hours .01 Slnca ian. t J.St Santa parlod last ytar J.21 fit-' Miitl&Zr' --8 BUDDING SCIENTISTS ADMIRE PROJECT A group of young scientists from tha city elementary schools study a project entitled "What is an Insect" displayed at the city schools' science fair held at Conger School Thursday. There were nine gold medal winners at the fair who are eligible to compete in the Northwest finals in Portland May 4. Between 80 and 90 students entered projects in the fair. In Thursday's front page Herald and News story gold medal winner Ronnie Ronningen, O'Neill School third grader, was omitted. Ronnie teamed with Randy Hansen on the winning project. ' Cuban Oil Plants Bombed By Exile Mystery Plane MIAMI, Fla. i UPC- A "mys- lory" aircraft dropped five 100- pound bombs laic Thursday night !on Cuban oil refineries on Hava na's eastern outskirts, it was re ported here today. The .Cuban exile group which sponsored the raid did not claim any material damage. The refin eries were the Castro-confiscated Kssd and Shell properties across the bay from Havana. Exile sources said the plane, de scribed as a twin-engined com mercial type, tnik off (or the at tack from a "secret Caribbean base " Nikita Affirms Stand For Independent Laos MOSCOW iliPl' Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev today re affirmed his stand on the need for a Iree and independent Laos. Khrushchev's support for his 1WI accord with President Ken nedy on Laos was disclosed fo ment after U.S. presidential trou ble-shooter W. Averell Harriman me. with the premier tor 3'i hours and presented him with a message (rom Kennedy. Harriman. in Moscow on a dra matic mission to save the peace in 1-aos, saw Khrushchev in the premier's olfice after a meeting with Soviet Foreign Vnister An dre Gromyko. A joint Soviet-American state ment released alter the Kremlin meeting declared that boin gov ernments "fully support the Ge neva agreements on the Laotian question about which there was an exchange ol views between them in Vienna and a mutual un derstanding readied " The Kremlin meeiing occurred against a background n( renewed lighting in Laos, where Commu nisi Pathct Iao forces were re ported to have altai-ked an outposl of right-wing force" led by (Jen Phoumi Nosavan. Vientiane reports said the at tack raised a serious threat that Musa Pushes For CD 'Action SALKM 'UPI' - Senate Prci- rfent Ben Musa. Impatient with federal dclav. said he would re fer the controversial civil defense appropriation bill to the Ways and Means Committee Monday if he did not hear from federal ofli- rials sometime today. Musa. who was serving as gov ernor Monday, telephoned Nation al Civil Dclcnse Director S L Pittman and asked for clarifica tion ol Orecon's eligibility lor matching funds under the pro iwsed three-member state CD organization. Price Ten Cents 16 Page The attackers were not identi fied but in Washington, a free lance newspaperman. Alexander Rorke. said he took part in the raid. He said there were four men aboard the craft, including two other' unidentified Americans: . - I Exile sources said the attackers were out after a specific undis closed target, but decided on a secondary objective when they were unable to pinpoint it fur ac curate bombing. The bombs were homemade and presumably ineffective. Rorke said they "didn t blow anything up. It was the first hostile bombing the right-wing lorces might retali ate and possibly trigger another lull-scale civil war. The briel joint statement issued alter tlie Harriman-Khrushchev meeting said the U.S. underscore tary of state delivered a message from Kennedy to tlie Soviet pre mier "about the question of the situation in Laos. It said there had been a discus sion on the subject between Khru shchev and Harriman and repeat ed the expression of support for the Geneva agreements by both governments. But it gave no de tails of the substance of the talks. Tlie communique was released by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Harriman declined to discus the meeiing further with reporters Laos Troops Battle Anew VIENTIANE. Laos ilPD-New fighting has broken out between Ijiotian Neutralist lorces and Pro- Communist troops at four diner- ent spots on the Plain of Jars. informed sources reported tonight In addition, the Laotian Defense Ministry announced that Pro-Com munist Pathct Lao troops had at tacked an outpost of right-wing forces led by Gen. Phoumi No savan. The new outbursts of fighting were reported as Laos' be leaguered Neutralist Premier. Prince Souvanna Phouma. sched uled a trip to the Plain of Jars Saturday in a personal cf tort to hait the new baltimt that threat - cned the existence of his shaky coalition govcrnrncni. !,, public statements on his ad- Informed sources in Vientane vancing ace focused attention on said that new fichting had broken his possible? successors in the out Thursday nicht and today at, Kremlin. Khang Khay. Xieng KhouangJ Hie spotlight fell especially on Phonsavan, and Lat Houang. iFrol Kotlnv, 54, a secretary of iof the Havana aica since April 15, mi. when exiles strafed and bombed major airfields to set tlK stage for the abortive Buy of Pigs invasion two days later. The raiders Thursday niclit an parcntly successfully pierced the capital s actenses. There was no mention of antiaircraft fire. itciugee sources declined lol identify the anti-Castro group wnicn sponsored the attack. How ever, it was said to be an organi ration not previously identified with anti-Castro attacks. Rorke. in Washington attending an anti-Communist seminar, told newsmen one of the Americans on the raid was a student at the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology and the other a businessman. He refused to identity them. He said Hie bombardier was a Cuban. Koike also declined to identify the takeoff site. GARDENING KNOW-HOW anMoatflaaaaaf rssosa-avni li oajoii niaj nil" aaapwsojaswosPsra rajnt J iS W jM . - .V-,-- V ;'- fi ',"' -Vi'lfS if: f , v ; 'i:-r this spring tha Klamath County Library is tha place to during National Library Week if a selection of flower and garden car books that might help spell, th difference between luccevt or failure for your panslfts and lilies. If you can't find what you want to volve your garden's particular problems tha staff at the library will be glad to help you look through tht reference section. Russians Talk Possibility Of Khrushchev Resignation MOSCOW it'PD Nikita Khrushchev's reminder to the Rus sian people that he is not im mortal lent weight today to spec ulation he might soon resign one of his top government and Com munist party posts. There was no official indication , Khrushchev was under political pressure to make a chance, bui KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 2fi, 1963 Rescue In West Virginia Coa DOLA. W. Va. IUPI "-Fourteen soft coal miners were found dead today deep inside the explosion- torn Clinchtield Coal Company's No. 2 mine and hope dwindled fast for eight men still missing. The explosion, triggered late Thursday night by either methane gas or coal dust, plunged this small mining community of 200 people into gloom. As grim word was flashed from rescue teams 330 feet beneath the surface, the strain began to tell on relatives who had gathered at the pithead. First two bodies were found, then another, and then a group ol 11 in one of the main work ing areas which probably bore the full brunt of the violent blast. Tlie search continued for the missing eight. Thirty other miner- survived the tragedy by scampering to the surface. The general feeling at the mine olfice was one of pessimism. Shortly before noon, a spokes man (or the mine's management disclosed that 24 rubber sheets had been ordered from a nearby mor tuary. Rut in the tradition of coal min ing, rescue teams pushed forward against time in an attempt to reach the men still unaccounted for. Significantly, the Compass No 2 mine is located only a short dis tance from the scene o( this conn try's worst mining disaster. On Dec. . 1007. l miners lust tlieir lives in a mine near Mnnongah, W. Va. The first hint of Thursday night's explosion came when men Ways, Means Gives Oil Campus Top SALEM (UPI I Higher educa tion buildings worth $& minion were given tentative approval Thursday by the Ways and Means. Education subcommittee. The priority buildings in the in structional and utility category were chosen from a $45 million list proposed by the Slate Board of Higher Education. In addition, the subcommittee will act on buildings in the dor mitory - student center category. If vou need helo in the powerful parly central com - mittee who is considered Khrush- chev s heir apparent as party 1-1 Khrushchev has made similar the Soviet Union. I 'U.S officials in Washinstnr.Cmments before, hut particular were reluctant to rrad too much importance was attached to this into Khrushchev s remarks, but one because it was made public, they sensed that the pic.Tiierthroughoul tlie Soviet Union by might soon decide to give up somcthe official news agency Tass j of his strenuous duties. i (Thursday and the party ncspa The Rt-vcar-old premier and per Pravda and government j first secretary of the ruling partyinewspaper Ineslia today. Izves- toid a sroup of workers Wednes-ltia held up its recular Thuisxlay day he was getting old and "ev-inight edition to appear this morn cryone understands that I cannntjing with the speech. i earns recover working in oilier sections began coming to the surface. Tlieir cloth- was covered w ith coal dust in dicating the blast was of violent proportions. One foreman on the surface was quoted as saying. "It would be impossible for any of them to have survived that explosion." John Morabito, w-ho was below ground but about a mile from tlie point of the explosion, said the i i RESCUE TEAMS READIED In Dola, W. Va., lascue teams get equipment in prepara tion for their first trip into the mine explosion area. Eight men are reported still trapped from tha explosion lata Thursday, though 14 bodies ware brought to the surface early Friday. - UPI Telnphota 'Die committee Is considering a list worth $17.8 million, pared down from $29 million request ed by the board. The cdmmittce stressed that its decisions were subject to change, depending in part on "how much money we have." If the instructional building lis! gets (inal approval, some of the buildings would be financed with general funds or a general bond issue. Others libraries and ath- getting your go. On display at tha library i hold for all time the position I now have in the party and tlie L,,i aarden started Telephone concussion "knocked a shovel out of my hand and threw me to the floor." "I didn't waste any time getting out of there," Morabito said. Another miner. Bellman Harry Williams, reported the force of the blast ripped the coat off his shoulders and he w as four miles away. Within minutes after tlie grim news was passed, relatives began lilic buildings would be fi nanced under tlie self-liquidating program as dormitories are now With bonds paid for out of car- marked student fees. Of the general fund buildings. the committee gave top priority to the Oregon Technical Institute campus and to replacement ol Campbell Hall at Oregon College of Education. Others Listed Next in order were utility tun nel extensions at Oregon Slate, a boiler al the Medical School, classroom-laboratory building at Southern Oregon College, a class room - laboratory at OCE and a science-math building at Eastern Oregon College. Rounding out the list were an addition to Cordley Hall at OSU, a science building addition at the University of Oregon, and a phar macy building addition at the University of Oregon, and a phar macy building addition at OSU. In the self-liquidating category. the committee tentatively ap proved a heating plant at UO, a physical education building at Portland State, a library addition to the science buildhg at UO, a physical education building at SOC, a medical school library ad dition and a library addition at PSC, plus a library and physical education building at OTI. Time Change Set Sunday Conlormilv is the watchword this vear with the State of Ore gon hilching-up to the Daylight Savings Time bandwagon start ing Sunday at 1 a.m. Itesidcnts are reminded to turn their clocks ahead one hour Sat urday nieht. There will be one hour of sleep lost, but much con fusion will be averted as Oregon gels in step with its nciglvboring stales. All schools and local bus lines will also begin operating on Day I'ght Saving starting Sunday, but Great Northern and Southern Pa cific trains will continue on Stan- dard Time schedules, t.ocai railway olfices, however, will be run (in Daylight Saving The Klamath Falls Post Office will also go on Daylight Saving Time besinning April 28 for its entire operation of window serv ice, carrier delivery, and collec tion and dispatch of the mail. a.o- Wiiiif. M it saV tU - - TU 4-8111 No. 7116 I Mine Blast gathering at the mine office near the main shaft. All 22 of the trapped men were married and 17 of them had a total of 39 children. Company Vice President Steve Canonico reported that tlie acci dent occurred at about 11 p.m. He confirmed that the explosion was caused either by methane gas or coal dust. "We didn't blow any whistle The committee changed thei board's priority order in some cases. It stayed, however, with the first part of the board's pit ority list except for passing over three items: Alterations to t h e OSU library, an addition to the UO library, and an addition to the OCE library. Tile subcommittee discussed re quested funds for campus expan sion. Higher cducat on said it often less costly to buy the land be- Speed Limit To Curb Highway Deaths SALEM UP! - Tlie House voted fur maximum speed limits today in an effort to curb the slalc's rising highway death toll. Tlie trallic salcty measure went to the Senate. Hep. C. R. Hoyt, R-Corvallis. said in an age when autos can gu so fast "we need something to help us discipline ourselves." Rep. James Redden, D-Mcdford. said in other states with speed imits motorists heed them, but in Oregon tliey take advantage of a "live or ten mile edge." Oregon has the basic rule, which requires a driver to drive at a safe and reasonable speed that will enable him to keep his ear under control and not en danger others. In addition, Oregon highwajs have designated, or sug gested speeds, but they are not lecal speeds. Speakers said the bill would re tain the basic rule, but put a top on it. The bill, which passed 35-19, would set k maximum of 75 miles School Plan Meet Slated A meeting will be held at Henley High School Wednesday at 8 p.m. for all county rest desjts. both rural and city, who are opposad to the plan for the single couay-wMe dit llict (hat Is bring proposed. Anyone wanting more Inlur. matin mi the plan or tome of the cmntrr proposals may contact Cliff Robinson, county school npriintradrnt, at tha countv school distract office, TU 2-2501. Est. Til. Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Partial clearing and celdor tonight with near frttting If mptwtvrtrs, Saturday will bt parHr tunny wtfii fair drying condition. Outlook It for HttU chengt Willi recurring periods of fthowtrs. 'after the explosion occurred)," Canonico said. "Quite a few (men) got out safely and they passed the word around. Word travels fast at a time like this." The company official reported that "just a few" families were standing by at the mine office awaiting news from tlie rescue units. "They seem to be taking it well," Canonico said. "They ap pear hopeful that their relatives will be found safe." i From initial accounts, the miss ing miners appeared to be sealed off in a passageway beyond the point of explosion. The first indication of trouble at the Clinchfield No. 2 came late Thursday night when miners in other sections of the operation reported feeling a shock wave, presumably from tlie blast. Within minutes, rescue teams were being readied to go down into the pit. By 6 a.m. the first units were reported to have pene trated to a point 1,200 feet from the point of the explosion. Word was flashed to the surface that the rescue teams had en countered "only normal amounts" of methane gas. They said they were having no trouble with rock- falls, a hazard which normally fol lows an explosion deep inside a coal mine. The oossihilitv that disaster had slVuck plunged the town's population of 200 persons into gloom. Tlie most recent mine disaster in this coal mining state occurred on March 8, I960 when 18 men lost their lives at a mine near Logan, W. Va. Priority fore it is needed. Rep. Stafford Hansell, R-Hermis-ton, said he would prefer major universities to plan on an ulti mate enrollment of 12.000 instead of 18,000 and a decision on ulti mate size should be made as a basis for land acquisition plan ning. Hansell said growing community colleges should be considered in long range planning for higher ed ucation expansion. Bill Okayed on freeways and 65 miles on highways. It also would increase the resi dential area speed limit from 25 to .10 miles and tlte school zone speed from 20 to 25 miles. Principal Suspended The KUHS School Board has suspended employment of W illard C. McKinny as principal until his teaching certificate status is clari fied. Action of tlie board was re vealed Friday morning in a state ment by Superintendent Ray Hun- saker. The statement sai3. "In accord ance with tlie action of Leon P. Minear, Superintendent of Public Instruction of tlie state of Ore gon, revoking the teaching cer tificate of Willard C. McKinny, the board of directors of Klam ath Union High School District 2 hereby suspends the employ ment of Willard C. McKinny as principal of KUHS effective April 23 and future employment pur suant to his contract will not bo reinstated until a final and com plete determination of Willard C. McKinny's proper teacher's cer tification according to law." Tlie board held a special exec utive session Thursday evening following receipt of a notice from Minear that McKinny'i teaching certificate had been revoked by tiie board because of some ftregu larilics tn hit application. 14 Bodies
