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By FRANK JENKINS
In Frankfurt, Germany, today
,,"'" wiuieay tens a million
entering Germans that the Unit
ed States will RISK ITS CITIES,
if necessary, to defend its allies.
He added: "A threat to the free-
own oi turope is a threat to
uie Ireedom of America."
He continued:
"The Atlantic community is in
divisible. Hundreds of thousand
oi our soldiers serve with yours
on mis continent as tangible ev
oence of that pledge. Those who
would doubt our pledge or deny
this indivisibility those who
would separate Europe from
America ... or split one a 1 1 y
from another . . . would only give
aid and comfort to the men who
make themselves our adversaries
and welcome any Western disar
ray." Question:
Whom was he talking to?
The answer is rather plain. He
was talking to a gentleman
named De Gaulle.
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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON', TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1963
Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7177
Kangaroo Court' .Charge Leveled At
JFK Would Risk Cities
To Defend US Allies
This may be taken for granted
This strange gentleman named
De Gaulle was undoubtedly listen
ing very carefully indeed to w hat
President Kennedy was saying in
Frankfurt, the ancient capital of.
Germany.
He was watching and sizing up
the MILLION cheering Germans
who greeted President Kennedy
as he arrived in Frankfurt to
make the speech that was billed
as the MAJOR address of his 12
day tour of West Germany, Ber
lin, Ireland and Britain.
He must have been saying to
himself: "What will these Ger
mans do? Will they stick with
me, in my proposal of a Europe
for Euroans? Or will they
stick with the U.S.A?
Let's put it this way:
If the Germans stick with De
Gaulle in a Europe for Europeans
proposal, it will be time for us
to pick up our toys and come
home.
That's about the size of the
situation that is shaping up.
On the lighter side:
A dispatch from Bonn, in Ger
many, tells us that "President
Kennedy has flunked in Ameri
can history. In a brief speech at
Cologne, he told the German
crowd gathered in the city hall
square:
"As a cilizen of Boston. wli:.-h
TAKES PK1UE' IN BEING THE
OLDEST city in the United
States " As a mailer of
history, the oldest city in the
U.S. is St. Augustine, in Florida,
which was founded in 13U5. Bos
ton was founded in 1630. 65 years
later.
It was a bit embarrassing, of
course. But let's not blame our
President too much for his slip.
The speech, of course, was writ
ten by his speech writers.
That brings up another story.
A while back, in Washington,
Oregon's Senator Maurine Neu
ber'ger sent out to her ghost writ
er lor a speech. It started off
like this: "When I was a BOY,
things were quite different in our
country."
The ghost writer didn't know
that Oregon's junior senator is a
woman.
FRANKFURT, Germany fUPI
President Kennedy dramatized
his campaign for closer Atlantic
unity today by promising that the
United States would "risk its
cities" if necessary to defend its
Allies.
"A threat to the freedom of Eu
rope is a threat to the freedom
of America," the President said
in a speech at the historic Paul
skirche St. Paul's Church ).
While he emphasized defense
matters, the Chief Executive also
called for economic unity and
common political purpose as req
uisites to successful Western re
sistance to Communist pen
etration.
The White House staff regarded
Kennedy's prepared Paulskirche
speech as the most important ut
terance of his four-day visit to
West Germany, the first stop on
his 12-day European tour.
Aimed At Critics
The main thrust of the speech
was aimed at international critics
who have forecast that the United
Slates ultimately will welsh on
defense commitments to its West
ern Allies and revert to what the
President scorned as "narrow na
tionalism."
The President, who came here
from two days of talks in Bonn
with Chancellor Konrad Ade-
, vowed that American de-
Airmen Cleared
WASHINGTON if PI '-The De
fense Department today cleared
three U.S. Air Force men who
were flown home from Britain
for Questioning in the Profumo
sex and security scandals.
The airmen were not identified.
But the department said impli
cation had shown that none was
"involved directly or indirectly in
any way, or had any knowledge
concerning the case.
Lumber Talks
Break Down
PORTLAND iUPI- Talks be
tween the Lumber and Sawmill
Workers Union 1LSW1 and the
Timber Operators Council, which
represents some 196 employers,
resumed and then broke down
again Monday. Spreading of the
current strike appeared possible.
The TOC offered the union a 20-
cent hourly wage hike over the
next three years. This was reject
ed bv the union which reiterated
its demand for a 60-cent an hour
raise over the same period.
A federal conciliator called a
caucus lor eacn sine ana men
talks were recessed.
A union spokesman said he con
sidered the talks at an impasse
and added the negotiating com
mittee "mav take selective eco
nomic action" against one. two or
three members of the TOC.
In Kalispell, Mont., a temporary
restraining order which had
barred the LSW Irom sinning
aaainst the St. Regis Paper Co.
at Libby and Troy was vacated
by Judge Frank Haswell.
The LSW and the international
Woodworkers of America MW.V
earlier struck St. Regis and U.S.
fense commitments to protect
"common freedom and safety"
were assured "by one great fun
damental fact that they are
deeply rooted in America's own
self interest."
"Our commitment to Europe is
indispensable in our interest as
well as yours," he said to a large
Frankfurt audience and television
viewers across Western Europe.
"A threat to the freedom of Eu
rope is a threat to the freedom
of America."
Reviews U.S. Troops
Kennedy arrived in Frankfurt
after conferring with West Berlin
Mayor Willy Brandt in Bonn and
visiting American troops near
Hanau in his role as commander-in-chief.
He flies to Berlin
Wednesday.
The building in which the
Resort City
Wins Demo
Convention
WASHINGTON IUPD - The
Democrats agreed today to hold
their 1964 national convention to
renominate President Kennedy at
the famous boardwalk resort of
Atlantic City, N.J., beginning
August 24.
The convention will come just
live weeks after the Republicans
select their challenger in San
Francisco.
Barring some stunning political
upheaval, the Democratic conven
tion will be devoted largely to
renominating Kennedy for a sec
ond term and hammering out e
party platform.
Atlantic City which never has
had a national political conven
tionwas selected by the Demo
cratic Party's Sites Committee at
a special breakfast session. The
recommendation was quickly ap
proved bv the Democratic Na
tional Committee without audible
dissent.
The New Jersey city, famed for
its weather-worn boardwalks, salt
water air and rolling chairs, won
out oxer Miami Beach and Chi
cago in the final balloting.
Cliica20 was ruled out at the
lasl minute when the Sites Com
mittee decided to hold the con
vention - startinu Aug. 2-1. The
Windy City's Convention Hall al
ready was booked up for that
period.
William S. Potter of Delaware,
chairman of the Sites Commit
tee, said it was "a close race de
cided only this morning."
Potter told the national commit-
President delivered his speech
here is an ancient church in the
heart of Frankfurt where the first
all - German parliament met in
1848.
To drive home his conviction
that defense of the Atlantic com
munity is indivisible, Kennedy
said in his speech:
"The United States will risk its
cities to defend yours because we
need your freedom to protect
ours. Hundreds of thousands of
our soldiers serve with yours on
this continent as tangible evi
dence of that pledge. Those who
would doubt our pledge or deny
this indivisibility those who
would separate Europe from
America or split one ally from
another would only give aid and
comfort to the men who make
themselves our adversaries and
welcome any Western disarray."
Reply To De Gaulle
This passage in part could have
reflected a veiled Kennedy refer
ence to French President Charles
de Gaulle, who has opposed the
American blueprint of a so-called
grand design for Atlantic partner
ship in preference for greater Eu
ropean determination of Euro
pean destiny, particularly in the
field of defense.
Kennedy repeatedly emphasized
his belief in European autonomy
in all such matters, saying at
one point. "The choice of paths
to the unity of Europe is a choice
which Europe must make."
De Gaulle has forged ahead
with development of a purely
THE GRAND OLD PARTY The Klamath County Republican Central Committee
will go into action tonight to start plans for the 1964 elections. The rally, which will
replace the annual Republican picnic usually held during the summer, will start at 8
o'clock in the Winema Hotel. The party will be a welcome home for State Representa
tives Carrol Howe, right, and George Flitcraft. The legislators will give a report on the
recent sessions of the state legislature. Left is Ross Ragland, chairman of the central
committee. The public is urged to attend the report rally being sponsored by the cen
tral committee, Republican Women and ths Younq Republicans.
Rate
Reduce
inj
SIAC Member May
Take Issue To Court
lectric Power
V Firm Mergers
SALEM (UPD-State Industrial
Accident Commissioner Emily P.
Logan cried "kangaroo court"
Monday and refused to answer
charges of "inefficiency in office"
leveled at her by Gov. Mark Hat
field.
Mrs. Logan's attorney, Ernest
Bonyhadi, questioned the legality1
of procedures followed by Hat-
lield, and said he had not yet de
cided whether to take the Issue to
the courts, or to answer the
charges in a public statement.
Mrs. Logan and Commission
Chairman Sidney B. Lewis re
ceived dismissal notices, effective
today, on June 11.
Hatfield charged them both with
"inefficiency in office," and set
Monday's hearing in case either
wanted to dispute the charges.
Lewis resigned Friday. A few
hours later, Wilfred A. Jordan.
Coos Bay Republican, was named
to succeed him.
Hatfield named Grants Pass
Mayor Charles B. GUI Jr., a
Democrat, to succeed Mrs. Logan,
ellective today.
Mrs. Logan refused to resign.
She arrived at the board of con
trol room for Monday's hearing
three minutes ahead of time.
Hatfield entered the room six
minutes later.
Some 50 spectators about half
of them women crowded into one
end of the room. There were not
enough chairs. Some stood, others
sat on the floor. The crowd over
flowed into the hallway outside.
Warnc Nunn, Hatfield's execu
tive assistant, read a twe page
statement which declared "Uie
functioning of the department has1
commissioners. The arbitrary
manner of the commission has
caused an extremely low staff
morale which, through reduced
productiveness, has been costly."
The statement then included 11
sets of quotes from unidentified
persons criticizing department
morale.
"When Uie morale problem had
been brought to the attention of
the commissioners, they denied
that a problem existed," the re
port charged.
The statement asserted "the
two commissioners (Lewis and
Mrs. Logan) have been less than
candid in their dealings with the
public and this office...
On several occasions the two
commissioners have met on com
mission business and made com
mission decisions without inviting
the third commissioner (William
Callahan) to be present. This is
intolerable.
Nunn concluded: 'The increas
ing costs of the department, the
inefficiency of operation, the low
morale of employes, and the de
terioration of the status of the de
partment in the eyes of the leg
islature and Uie public are a di
rect result of the arbitrariness
and lack of skill on the part of
commissioners Sidney Lewis and
Emily Logan. Upon arriving at
this conclusion, action was taken
to remove them from office."
Bonyhadi then read excerpts
from a five-page statement ques
tioning the legality of not provid
ing Mrs. Logan with specitic
charges.
He said "the governor's right
of removal is not absolute . . , the
MEDFORD Greater diversity East Side hydroelectric plant and
in system operations and powerlothcr work around Upper Klam-
1 supply- resources resulting tromlnUi Lyi.
i T ,r 7 n.r.i in, , merser of California Oregon Pow- Most.of the hydroelectric con-
nff fh. IIS filler In nfll tlrinau I n .-r- J
. ... i r - er company imo racmc rower ctrif inn in Mm K nmnfh riv.i-
in a multilateral nuclear naval
force within NATO. The British
have accepted the plan, which in
volves the United States furnish
ing Polaris missiles to the pro
posed NATO force.
Plywood and four other members tee that "money means a great
of the Big Six emplover group ,ueai in ..electing a comenuon
shut down in retaliation. icily. He noted that the Atlantic
A spokesman lor the TOC said City b.d included s2.).00 in casn
he thought the offer made Mon-and a rent-free hall. He said the
hotel situation mere was gooa.
Death Asked
For Slayer
JACKSON. Miss. iL'PI' - The
stale will seek the death penalty
for a white segregationist
charged with the sniper slaying
of Negro civil rights leader Med-
gar Evers.
The suspect. Byron De La
Bcckwith. was scheduled' to ap
pear before City Judge James
Spencer today at 4 p.m., EDT.
in a preliminary hearing on a
murder charge.
Disl. Attv. William Waller said
Monday night lie would ask the
Hinds County grand jury when it
convenes next Monday to indict
Beckwilh lor murder.
and Light two years ago made it
possible earlier this year to re
duce the cost of electric services
in Southern Oregon by $1 million
annually, a PPL official said here
Monday night.
The reduction in industrial.
farm and residential rates was
cited as one example of a num
ber of the merger benefits lor
power consumers, the company
and its employes and the North
ern California and Southern Ore
gon region.
The large area was represented
here Monday night by more than
300 men attending a testimonial
dinner honoring two PPL officials
who will rclire June 30.
The two guests of honor were
John C. Boyie. a PPL vice presi
dent and engineer who is widely
known in the Klamath Falls area,
and Albert S. Cummins, a PPL
vice chairman and former presi
dent of the California Oregon Pow
er Company from 1941 to KK',2.
Boyle has designed and direct
ed the building of most of the
electric system serving the area,
including the 88.000 kilowatt capa
city Klamath River plant that
bears his name. From 1921 until
1929 he was manager of the com
pany's Klamath Division electric
canyon was done under Ins en
ginceiing direction.
In reciting the contributions
Boyle and Cummins had made
to the development of the electric
syslem. Glen L. Jackson. Medford
industrialist and also a 'PPL vice
hairman, said both men had
foreseen the merger benefits when
the plan was proposed, and had
worked toward us consummation
The PPL official said the com
pletion last year of the 230.000
volt transmission circuit Unking
the Southern Oregon operations
with PPL's Willamette Valley sys
tem had strengthened the compa
ny's entire power operations. He
said the integration of the PPL
and Copco generating resources
on different rivers made it pos
sible to exchange large amounts
of energy to the advantage of all of
the company s electric customers.
"The larger organization of
.pecialists in many fields of in
dustrial and area development,
geology, industry, agronomy, for-
dav to be "very fair. 1
"I will ask for the death pen
altv if. and when, he is indicted system
and tried." Waller said. ( Boyle was chief engineer with
Beckwilh. 42. of Greenwood. Copco during construction of the
was turned over to Jackson pe-jLjnk Biver dam winch was com
lice Monday afternoon by U.S. P ed m 1921 and was the result
Hoffa Pleads
innocent
of a 1917 agreement with the Bu-'
rcau of neclamation and the fed-1 ,
oral government,
He also directed (he jsuWquent
Vandals Hit
High School
Commissioner John R. Countiss
III on instructions from the Jus
tice Department.
He is charged with the June 12
sniper slaying of Evers, who was
state field secretary of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
(NAACPi.
Beckwilh was arrested by the
FBI last Saturday night at his
attorney's office in Greenwood on
a federal warrant. He had been
held since early Sunday as a led-
era I prisoner.
Beckwilh, a sa.esman lor a
Greenwood lertiluer tirm. was smith, Chiloquin chief of police,
arrested alter the mi said a .reported this morning,
fingerprint found on a nlle be-i Vandals turned water hoses on
lieved used In kill Eer malchedjd,,, new 11(,n st-hool gym floor
one of his. A telescopic sight of ;ani broke several windows
Japanese make which was at- ihroughout the building, the police
tached to the rifle also was. chief said,
traced to Bcckwith. ! The gym floor, winch was rr-
-- jlinisbed two weeks ago, was dam-
' ,aced beyond repair and will
a d,.,..i 'have to be replaced. The vandal-
Going Awoy Present .tm (,mi( hjw ft(.rurml any
llimc during the past week since
CHICAGO (L'Pil - Teamsters
Union President James R. Hoffa
today pleaded innocent to charges
of conspiring with seven other
men in a $20 million fraudulent
loan scheme.
The other seven men indicted
with the Teamsters boss also
pleaded innocent.
Federal Judge Richard B. Aus
I tin said the case, regarded as the
.Justice Department s ncaviest
iblnw to dale in its running battle
Between M.0O0 and $."i,WrO worlhwith Hoffa, would go to trial
of vandalism at the Chilnquin ()!. 7,
High School was discovered Mon- Holla was in the court and
day by the school janitor. Max delivered the plea of not guilty
AIRPORT PEOPLE HOSTS Members of th newly elected court of the Klamath
Basin Roundup and some officials were guests at luncheon in the Satellite Restaurant
in (he Municipal Airport Terminal building June 25. The luncheon kicked off a round
of public appearances for the court. Left ta riqht, kneeling, are Queen Sandra Wood
ard Henley, and Princesses Millie Sutherland, Klamath Falls, and Jinny Doak, Chiloquln.
H1TCHIN. England L'PI'-The
day after Don Parker bought hi.v
40-vear-old wile a new car two
weeks ago she went for her first i school through a real
drive and hasn't hern seen since. Mow. Chief .Smilh said
the gym was closed for the floor
io dry after tlie relinishing job
The vandals broke into the
gym win
A joint in-
I am completely mystilied." ivestigation of the vandalism
Parker said today, 'Beryl never; planned by the Cbiloqtun police.
iinditatcd she would do a thing state police and Kl.im.ith County
ilike this." I sheriff's departmenl, he said.
himself. Allerward, he expressed
confidence that Atlv. Gen. Robert
Kennedy would not succeed
i-onv.ciina h;m on the charges of
manipulating loans from the
teamsters' Central Stales Pen
hoo Fund.
"The plea of not guilty will be
substantiated by evidence and it
will he proven that the pension
fund which is involved is not in
any way in danger and that this
is jusl aother propaganda move
bv Bob Kennedy. Hofla said.
The boss of the nation's largest
union said he was paying for hn
own defense.
"I've got a few friends left."
he said. He said he wanled a
quick trial to quiet any lears of
KTMins drawing money from the
pension fund.
estry, also can carry forward a
more active and eftecuve program-
on . behalf of -the growth
of the company s service areas,"
Jackson stated.
PPL reported it currently is
engaged in cataloguing the
minerals and other industrial raw
material resources of Northern
California and Southern Oregon
for possible future commercial de
velopment. I
It was said the survey was!
similar in scope to other PPL
sponsored investigations, such asl
the Coos Bay Industrial Water
Supply search that resulted in a
new paper mill locating on the
Oregon Coast.
The PPL official reported the
tourist business in PPL areas
had profited from the recreation
al park and directional signs pro
vided last year by PPL, and he
predicted that other areas of the
economy would benefit from the
long range research programs fi
nanced by .PPL.
"In addition to the company's
direct help for specific companies
and industries, these long range
research and economic studies
are going to have an important
influence on the expansion of the
economy of PPL s service areas,
it was stated.
In attendance at the testimoni
al dinner with the business and
civic leaders were co-workers of
Boyle and Cummins, retired cm
ploves of both states and a group
of PPL officers and staff from
the general offices in Portland.
Pair Seated
On Board
SALEM (UPIi Two new indus
trial accident commissioners were;
sworn in today by Gov. Mark Hat
field, who then made an unprece
dented apiiearance before . com
mission employes and urged them
to "continue working forward, on
ward and upward to make this
the best program in uie nation.
Mrs. Emily Logan and Commis
sion Chairman Sidney B. Lewis re
ccived dismissal notices, effective
today, on June II, Monday's hear
ing was set in case cither wanted
to dispute tlie charge.
Lewis resigned Friday, and a
few hours later Wilfred A. Jordan.
Coos Bay Republican, was named
to succeed him.
Shortly after Monday's hearing.
Hatfield named Grants Pass May
or Charles B. Gill Jr., a Demo
crat, to succeed Mrs. Logan.
Jordan was sworn in at 7:5j
a.m. today, then in a move that
surprised several members of the
governor's staff, Gill was sworn
in at ft am.
the inefficiency of Commissioner I and limited by statute .
Logan. ( 'He charged Hatlield had failed
Tlie' slatcincnt was critical of! to give Mrs. Logan 10 days in
Uie management exercised by the I which to prepare an answ er to
' the charges, as the law required.
we believe your failure to sup
ply charges in advance, as re
quested by Mrs. Logan, denies
our chance to prepare a defense.
It is unfair to Mrs. Logan and the
public."
He said Mrs. Logan was a per
son of unimpeachable reputa
tion," and noted she had been
twice appointed to Uie commission
by Hatfield.
At tills point Nunn interrupted:
"Are you going to discuss the
charges?"
Bonyhadi started to resume his
statement, then was interrupted
again by Nunn, and admonished
to comment on Uie charges.
Bonyhadi (lien asked that the
hearing be adjourned "at least II)
days to allow Mrs. Logan to pre
pare a thoughtful response."
Nunn asked are you question
ing the procedure?"
After conferring wilh Hatlield
and Hicks, Nunn commented "the
governor feels the law has been
complied with.
"We deny your request for a
postponement. This hearing is
concluded." -
The hearing lasted exactly 26
minutes.
This is a kangaroo court, pure
and simple," Mrs. Logan said as
Hatlield and his stall tiled Irom
the room.
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GAS TRUCK IN JACKKNIFE The rear trailer of a gasoline tandem unit and tractor
did a jackknife and flipped over on its sida at Wall Street and Esplanade Avenue
about 8:45 this morning, bringing to the scene local firemen who hosed gasoline seep
ing from the frailer into the sewer. The truck driver, who declined to state hit name,
said he was backinq the rig out of a service station at the corner of the two streets
when the "fifth wheel" of the unit failed to function and the trailer tipped over. The
tanker contained about 850 gallons of gasoline and is the property of the Acme Truck
ing Company of Medford.