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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1963)
COUP. la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS The big news today? As tliis is written, it seems still to be the alleged split he tween the Russians and the Red Chinese. At the moment, there appears to have been a definite and WIDE split and the Russians appear to be relieved and RE LAXED by what has happened The Retf Chinese appear to be glum and angry. This morning's dispatches say "Joking and bubbling with en thusiasm. Premier Nikita Khru shchev launched the Krem lin talks on a nuclear test ban agreement yesterday in a three and a half hour conference with special U.S. and British envoys He jovially suggested signing the agreement right away. "Red China, whose feud with Khrushchev has reached the point of a split, took angry note of the talks. A Peking broadcast charged that the negotiations were based on what it called the , 'utter hypocrisy' of President Kennedy's strategy for peace." Not only was Khrushchev in a jovial mood. The Moscow dispatch es add: "Newsmen saw E. H. Harri man I U.S. negotiator) and Lord Hailsham (British negotiator) come out of Die Kremlin in ap parent good spirits. Leaving in separate cars, both were laugh ing and smiling as they talked with their associates." Question: Can there be a SAFE agree ment with Russia? Well, some pretty good people have thought so. John Foster Dul les, who in his way was a pretty good man, said many years ago: "The time may come I be lieve it will come when Russians of stature will patriotically PUT FIRST their national security and the security of their people. They will be unwilling to have that security and that welfare sub ordinated to the worldwide ambi tions of International Commu nism. "If their point of view should prevail, then indeed there could be a basis for worthwhile nego tiation and practical agreement between the United States and the new Russia." One more question: If there should be a World War III, would it be possible to wage it without using nuclear bombs? That's a difficult question. But we have to judge the future by the past. The Germans introduced the use of poison gas when they sent clouds of chlorine gas against the allied forces at Ypres. It wasn't too successful then. The wind changed and blew the gas back into the German ranks. But poison gas was perfected. Ways were found to make it more dependable as a killer to be used with relative safety against an enemy. There came then World War II, The warring countries stock piled gas masks and manufac tured vast quantities of highly perfected- poison gas. No one knows how close the Germans lied at that time by a MADMAN) came to using it. The Allied high command was prepared to FIGHT BACK WITH POISON GAS. But even Madman Hitler never used it. So- Mavbe it will be possible to ban the use of nuclear weapons in any future war. y Who knows? At any rate, it may be worth a trial. Prices Hit By Strike SAN FRANCISCO aTl'-The Northwest lumber strike has af fected building material prices in the Bay Area and more increases are expected, local lumber deal ers said today. Some of the Bay Area's largest building material firms have raised their prices by as much as 30 per cent. A spokesman for dealers said the "situation can only get worse." Body May Be Buried In Train Wreck The possibili'.y existed today that the body of a man is buried beneath the wreckage of the Southern Pacific freight train which was derailed early Sunday night about'nine miles south of Dorris, Calif., the Herald and News learned Tuesday. As of noon yesterday, railroad workmen had removed debris Irom the tracks and SP trains operating between Portland and Oakland. Calif.; were back on schedule. Meanwhile, railroad cieus were continuing to dispose of some ol the 21 freight cars which were (lung into a field when the 93- Weal her Klamath Falls, Tulalaka and Lakavlaw Maslly fair thrw9h Wadnasdar with continued mild lamptraluras.- Lows to night v-43. Hiahl Wednesday 77-12. Vari able windi mostly under II m.p.li. High yesterday 77 Low this morning 47 High year ago 74 Low year ago 49 - Precip. past 24 hours .09 Since Jan. I 1.17 Sama period last year 1.11 erat Hopes Dull By United Press International Strikes in the Northwest lumber industry continued to spread to day, after any hopes for a settle ment soon were scuttled by the outcome of negotiations in Port land Monday. The Lumber and Saw mill Work ers Union (LSWi and Internatioit al Woodworkers of America 'IWAi extended their strike against Georgia-Pacific Corp. to its Springfield operations, idling between 1,000 and 1,100 men. Pickets appeared at 8 a.m. at two plywood mills and a fiber-ply mill near Springfield, at logging operations in the Mosby Creek and Row River areas south of the city, and across a private logging road. Monday the LSW struck a Geor gia-Pacific plant at Toledo, idling loo workers at a sawmill ana a plywood mill. 1WA members working in the woods were not affected. Other Georgia-Pacific operations at Coos Bay, Coquille and Pilot Rock, Ore.; Olympia, Wash., and Feather Falls, Samoa and Wood- leaf, Calif., were 'working today. About 22.500 Idle The Springfield closures bring to about 22,300 the number of men idled in Oregon, Washington, Montana and California by the dispute. The two unions Monday turned down a wage increase of 26 cents per hour over a three-year period The offer was made by the Big Six bargaining group in a seven- hour negotiating session arranged by federal mediators in Portland. The unions reportedly asked 35 cents. No more meetings were sched uled with the Big Six, which rep resents U.S. Plywood, Crown Zcl lerbach, Weyerhaeuser. St. hegis Paper, International Paper and Rayonicr. The unions struck U.S. Plywood and St. Regis June 5 and the other four firms shut down the next day on the basis that a strike against one is a strike against all. Simpson Talks Today Negotiators for the union were scheduled to meet will) Simpson Timber Co. officials today in Portland. Simpson, an independ ent, has continued to operate un der an extension of a contract which expired June I. Shot To Moon Under Debate MANCHESTER. England lUPI'l Sir Bernard Lovell. director of the Jcdrell Bank Radio Astron omy Station, said today Soviet scientists are debating whether it is worthwhile to proceed with a program to put a man on the moon. Lovell said Mstislav Keldysh. president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, planned to raise the question of getting international agreement about the comparative value of concentrating on getting a man to the moon or obtaining information bv instruments. The British scientist gave his impressions to newsmen alter a Ihrec-weck visit to the Soviet Un ion where he visited observatories and met top Russian scientists. car freight train left the tracks about 9: 15 p.m. Sunday. It is among those 21 shattered cars, many stacked like cord wood, that the body of a freight car hitchhiker is buried, accord ing to an opinion o! Wilbur Rich ardson, 44, of Alturas, who was one of three men riding on the train at the time of the derail ment. Richardson, who was taken to Uie Klamath Valley Hospital with a possible back injury after Hie derailment, told the Herald and News that he observed one of his companions walking away Irom the train but Uie otix.' definitely In Lumber Disputes Price Ten Cents 24 Pages EVERYBODY'S DOING IT It's summer time and every body's doing it, swimming, that is, at the Municipal Swimming Pool. The bare chested lads and swim capped lassies are getting their money's worth frolicking around in the cool water at the poof. Business at the pool has been soaring during the last tew days as these young sters try to beat the heat. Young Roger Clark, below, 14-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Clark, 529 Torrey Street, speculates upon the possible pleasures of the wading pool. Oops, Roger, you're a little overexposed. -vr: 'A Wallace Takes Position Against Civil Rights WASHINGTON (UP1I Ala bama Gov. George C. Wallace told Congress today that if the proposed public accommodations section of the administration's civil rights bill becomes law, he will make no effort to enforce it in his state. Wallace testified for the sec ond day before the Senate Com merce Committee, one ot three committees holding hearings on different sections of President Kennedy's civil rights package. A scheduled appearance today by Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy before the Senate Judiciary Com mittee was called off when the committee decided to hear some of its own members ahead of him. A spokesman said later that Kennedy might testily Wednesday, or his appearance might be re- scheduled for a later dale. Sen. Estcs Kefauver, D-Tenn made an unsuccessful effort to have the attorney general testify ahead of the Judiciary Commit tee members, since Kennedy and his aides were on hand and ready to begin. But committee Chairman James O. Eastland, D-Miss. foe o.' civil rights legislation. ruled that it was committee cus did not leave the wreckage, he said. Soon after the derailment. Rich ardson alerted trainmen at the scene of the accident that one of his companions was probably in jured and pinned under one of tlie freight cars. Trainmen and Cali fornia Highway Patrol officers began an immediate search but were unable to locate I lie missing rider. A spokesman for Uie railroad stated early today that many of Uie freight cars had not yet been moved from where they had been thrown following tlie derailment affirming tlie possibility that theipcrintcndenl of lice. tom to allow its members to have the "first opportunity." Sen. Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C, first to take the witness stand in the crowded hearing room, told Kefauver that Kennedy already had presented his views at prior hearings of other committees It's time to show that he is not always free from error," he said Ervin termed the proposed civil rights legislation unconstitution al, undesirable and unnecessary. and "as drastic and indefensible a proposal as has ever been sub mitted to Congress." Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R- N.Y., fired a criticisim of what he termed the federal govern ment's timidity in dealing with the civil rights problem. He re called that last month the Senate authorized spending up to $2,500,- 000 a year on sanitation facilities (or migratory workers, and "no one charged that this bill violat ed states' rights." Sen. Edward V. Long, D-Mo another committee member, en dorsed the full administration bill and called or "immediate ac tion." "For a century, we have el lowed discrimination to flour ish," he said. body of the hitchhiker could be under one of the demolished cars He added that maintenance crews would continue .-the -mop- up work on eight-hour shifts and estimated that the area would be cleared of the debris in about a week. An investigation as to the cause of tlie derailment is being con ducted by the superintendent's office at Dunsmuir, but it is be lieved that a faulty wheel bear ing contributed largely to the de railment. An estimate of the damage is also being determined by tlie su KLAMATH FAILS, OKKGOX, Soviet Asks U.N. Summit Meetings UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI The Soviet Union has proposed that tlie heads of state and gov ernment of all member nations attend the 20th anniversary ses sion of the U.N. General Assem bly in 15. The suggestion raised the pos sibility of a summit meeting be tween the major Last and West1 powers in conjunction with the U.N. session. The Soviet proposal was dis closed by U.N. sources and the official Soviet news agency Tass. 1 he Soviet recommendation was contained in a letter from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko handed to U.N. Secre tary General Thant Monday by Nikolai Fedorenko, chief of the Soviet mission, the U.N. sources said. Gromyko's letter was a reply to a message from Thant asking tor the views of all member gov ernments on an "international co operation year" for 1965 voted last year by tlie General Asscm bly. Advocates Free Zones According to Tass, Gromvko also advocated nuclear-free zones separating nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Oraanization (NATO i from Warsaw Pact coun tries, normalization, of trade be tween all countries and an end to colonialism by 19(i5. The General Assembly has vot ed to set up a 12-membcr com mittee to make plans for the 20lh anniversary of Uie founding of the United Nations in 1945. Thant polled Uie III U.N. members on their views on the resolution. The Soviet suggestion came at a time when East-West cordiality at the nuclear test ban talks in Moscow led to hope for a relaxa tion of tensions and the possibili ty of a top-level meeting among leaders of the major world pow ers. Diplomatic sources in London said Monday that President Ken nedy docs not favor a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev and other Western leaders at this time. But they said if the Moscow talks opened up the prospects for fur ther cold war settlements he was not believed !:!:;! to re(use. Kager For Meeting Prime Minister Harold Macmil Ian, according to the diplomatic sources, is eager lor an early summit meeting and would press for one if the Moscow talks are encouraging. The sources said a three-power summit meeting among Kennedy Macmillan and Khrushchev could be arranged on the occasion of signing a test ban if agreement is reached. Among tlie difficulties which could prevent such a meeting Li opposition from France and Ger many, the sources said. French President Charles de Gaulle is known to oppose sum mitry on Uie ground that it is not an effective diplomatic practice. The West German government! is believed to fear an allied "deal" with Russia at Germany's expense. TLESDAY. JILY 16. 19B3 We Lake l?reerafiDra Bill Stops Homestead Entries A bill which proponents claim would preserve four naUonal wild life refuges in the Tule Lake area, slop further homestead enU'y on tlie lands and maintain Tule Lake water area at 13,000 acres re ceived favorable action in the U.S. Senate Monday. The bill. Senate Bill 793, as amended, is a compromise meas ure following extensive hearings in Washington at which various in terested individuals and groups from this area appeared in April. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Clair Engle, Cali fornia. The bill does not contain all of the recommendations proposed by the various groups, but "it is a bill that contains many of the sug gestions and recommendations of Klamath Drainage District," it was stated today by Dick Henzcl president of the district. Henzel and George Proctor, KDD attor ney, appeared in hearings April 24 this year to urge changes in proposed Senate bills 784 and 793. Other area groups seeking changes in Uie proposed law w ere Tulclake Irrigation District, which had earlier supported a bill by Senator Thomas Kuchel of Call fornia; Klamath Sportsmen's As sociation, Klamath County Court, Klamath County Farm Bureau, ir rigation districts, City of Klamath Falls, ami others. Henzel said Tuesday Uiat the Senate-passed measure would es tablish in perpetuity the validity ot the orimnal contracts between1 Uie pepartment ol Interior and users of water for irrigation and agricultural purposes. Observers pointed out thai the bill establishes wildlife conserva tion as rating consideraUon over agriculture uses of the area, but it still protects the right of irri gation water users and homestead ers. It continues the present pat tern of land leasing. According to testimony by Sen Engle before the Senate subcom mittee on Irrigation and Reclama tion, in April, the bill is designed to end a poinlless controversy between agricultural and wildlife interests. Engle said that his bill is a "concession" to agriculture, but he added "it is of minor con sequence and a proper one, terming it a small price to pay to obtain united support at last." The Tulclake Irrigation District, through manager Ed Lance, Tues day morning stated: "The board of directors of Tulclake Irrigation District is gratified that the bill was amended to provide for a cash leasing program as pro vided in Section 5 of Bill 784 Sen. Clair Engle's bill. However," the statement con tinued, "the amendment passed in Section fi of Senate Bill 793 is ambiguous and not clear, and doubt is created as to the con sistency with the district's con tract." Lance said the district is mak ing a report to Congressman Har old T. (Bizz) Johnson recommend ing some minor changes in Sec tion fi. Lance and Henzel both said that their groups will continue to work with congressmen in an effort to achieve the necessary changes in the bill when it comes to the at tention of the House, No action has been taken by the House In terior Commitlee, where similar legislation bogged down last year. Monday's Senate bill is designed to stabilize the ownership of lands in adjacent and intermingled irri gation districts and the Upper Klamath, Lower Klamath, Clear !.ake and Tule Lake refuges in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Tie refuges were all created by presidential decree as far back as I93, according to TID testimony, which referred to luthorization of the Klamath Proj ect. Spokesmen at the Senate hear ings in April had proposed sev eral amendments to the legisla tion. It is not known at this time whether Uie iecific rccommen datiuns can be successfully incor porated in the final revision of the bill. They include: Preservation of wet land need ed for breeding, nesting and aouatic feeds. Preserve to the public Uie hunting rights which are the only and highest recreational value upon live Klamath Straits Unit Opportunity lor Uie secretary (Continued on Page 4) Telephone IHH J ld)i "" """ iManni, .,.k3siL-'..-i. INDIANAPOLIS DRIVER TALKS SAFETY Bob Veith, seven-time competitor In the Indianapolis 500-mile race, will present the award-winning Champion Highway Safe ty program at Kingsley Field, 9:30 a.m. Thursday and Friday, July 25-26, in the base theater. In presenting the program, Veith uses his racing experience to illustrate three basic points of safe driving, including good car condition, courtesy and mental alert ness, Also part of the program it a 27-minute color film made at the Indianapolis Mo tor Speedway. Kingsley Field is one of many Air Force installations which will feature the program during the summer. Military personnel, as well as the public, are invited to attend the classes. Test Ban Talks MOSCOW (UPD - The United Slates and Britain met with Rus sia today in the second straight day of nuclear test ban ncgolia Hons and the session once again got o:f to a good-humored start High U.S.. British and Soviet officials conferred for Uirce hours today in a meeUng in the Spiri- donovka Palace guest house end inc al 6 p.m. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, taking over leadership of the Soviet negotiations from Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, struck Uie light note during a pre-conference session in front of photographers with U.S. Under secretary of State W. Averell Har- nman and Britain s Lord Hail sham. Someone accidentally knocked over a chair while Uie three dele gation chiefs were posing in the meeting room in the Spiridonovka Palace guest house. Everyone in the room turned toward the chair. A Jovial Start 'Sec, there is confirmalion that everyone detected it, GromyKo said, in a joking reference to So viet-Western differences over the need for inspections to police a nuclear test ban treaty that in cludes underground tests. "No, it still needs inspection, said the British delegation chief. Monday's 3'i hour opening ses sion in the Kremlin also got off to a jovial start as Khrushchev joked and bantered with the Western delegation chiefs. Khrushchev's action in person ally opening the talks and his rollicking good humor on Uie oc casion stirred optimism among Legislation Rail Strike WASHINGTON (UPD Chief executives of the nation's leading ailroads said today that lcgisla lion was the only way to head off a nationwide rail strike over aliened "featherbedding" work rules. The railroad executives blamed five unions for blocking any set tlement of the conflict. They pre dicted that Congress would not penalize management in drawing up a law to end the rail crisis The statement, adopted by spokesmen for 103 railroads be longing to the Association ol American Railroads, appeared to dash Kennedy administration hopes for renewed bargaining in the four-year-old dispute. The refusal of the railroad op- crating unions to consider any reasonable proposal lor settle ment of the work rules dispute leaves legislation as the only re maining means we can see of heading off a calamitous nation wide rail strike," the railroad statement said. Tlie carriers' position was an nounced as a special lact-finding committee prepared a report for President Kennedy on the issues in the controversy. Kennedy had said he will ask Congress for legislation to dis TU 4-8111 No. 7193 Western diplomats here that East and West might agree on a par tial test ban. Cautious optimism continued to surround the negotiations as to day's meeUng got underway The Soviet .press today Kept up the outimistic mood by giving Monday's opening session of the' three-power conference top pay. This contrasted 6narpiy wan the Mirlual silence of the Soviet press on Uie current Sino-Soviet talks -that have apparently tailed to heal Uie widening rift between Moscow and Peking. Khrushchev joked Monday with Harriman and Hailsham during a threc-and-one-half hour meeting, Striking Contrast His behavior was in striking contrast to the snubs and attacks against Communist China, whose delegates were holding ideological talks with a Soviet team at the same time the nuclear conference was going on. ' Pravda, the Soviet Communist party newspaper, gave Uie nu clear talks front-page treatment today. It has made no mention of the Sino-Soviet discussions since the arrival of the Peking delegation was reported. Diplomats who thought the So viets might be seeking peace with the West at Uie expense ot their former Chinese allies stressed this contrast. (Outside Uie nuclear confer ence, however. Were was less warmth on Uie part of the Soviets. At Uie United Nations, Uie Soviet delegation charged Monday that former President Eisenhower was responsible for breaking the last Said Only Solution pose of the dispute on Monday a week before the current truce is due to expire. A strike could occur after July 29 unless Con gross acts before that time. Democratic congressional lead ers had said earlier following a meeting with the President that they were "very hopeful for a settlement of the dispute next week. Tempering his comment bv saying he is "always hopeful.' Senate Democratic Leader Mike Manslicld said the lawmakers discussed with Kennedy the fact linding mission undertaken by a, special presidential committee. Tlie committee hopes to report to the President Friday. Mansfield said the Democratic leadership was "very hopeful there will be a settlement in the discussions now going on. . .bv next Monday." He added: "If not, of course the President will have to make a move." In setting up the special com mitlee to pinpoint the issues in the work rules deadlock, Kennedy' set Monday, July 22, as the dead line for submission of the report. If there still is no settlement by then, he plans to use that report as a basis for proposals to Con gress to end Uie dispute. Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Confinutd fair condlttont ami bt low norm! ttmptnturs xctpt tor slight chainct of fttwwvrt Thuridiy. Haying out look continutd ood. fight-inch toll ttm ptntur M dcgroci. Spiritet moratorium on nuclear testing. (It said Eisenhower's 1959 statement reserving the right to resume tests meant the united States "officially abandoned the moratorium." The Soviets broke Uie unofficial ban by a massive test series in 1961. I (In London, diplomats warned that Communist China was "cer- my wn um agreement arrived at Dy uie oo- viets and Allies. It was believed that France also would continue I testing if it considered it neces sary for its defense program.) Hoffa Cose Deny Made NASHVILLE. Tenn. (UPD - Federal attorneys denied Monday defense claims that they offered to "take care" of one of the de fendants in the James R. Hoffa jury tampering case. In briefs filed with District Court Judge Frank Gray, the government said it did offer, however, to protect Thomas Ew- ing Parks, one of the defendants, if he would testify against Uie Teamsters president. The attorneys said there was nothing improper about the man ner in which Hoffa and 10 oth ers were indicted last May by a federal grand jury. They asked that defense motions seeking a dismissal of the charges or a separate trial in another city for Holla be dismissed. Arguments on tlie motions by both sides are scheduled July 22. Hoffa and the others were in dicted on charges of attempting to Drme jurors and prospecuve jurors in Hoffa's !-million con splracy trial last fall, allegedly offering $75,000. The Teamster president could be sentenced to 25 years in prison and fined $25,000 if convicted on all five counts. Russ, China Take Recess MOSCOW UPI) Soviet and Chinese delegates today took an apparent recess from their talks on the split in Uie world Com munist movement. ConUnuing press attacks have showed the split was widening. The Peking negotiating team met alone at Uie Chinese Embas sy, Communist sources said, Indi- caUng Uiat It was waiUng for new instructions from Uie Chi- ncse leadership and would not meet the Soviet Ideological nego tiators today. The instructions were presumed to deal with tho unprecedented attack on China published in Sun day's Pravda. There has been no direct Chi nese reply to tho attack as yet, but the press and radio in Mos cow and Peking today made it dear no hope of reconciliation re mains in the talks.
