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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1963)
In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Headline Ihis morning: BROAD SMILES IN MOSCOW. The story under the headline goes on to relate that our Aver eU Harriman and Britain's Lord Hailsham were smiling at the close of the second round of tlie Moscow parley on a formula to outlaw nuclear weapons tests. Before the opening of the day's work, Russia's Valerian Zorin was asked if he believes the talks are proceeding satisfactor ily. The correspondents report that he replied with a smile: "In my opinion, YES." It sounds super-wonderful. But in the warm glow of good will that appears to be pervading! the present meeting in .Moscow. let's not forget Hamlet's famous crack to the effect that one may smile and smile and be a villain "In a big deal, it always pays to keep your fingers crossed un til the papers are all signed. Britain's Sir Bernard Lovell. director of the Jodrell Bank Ra dio Astronomy Observatory, is just back in England a.'ter a three week visit to Russia. He says the Soviet Union is planning to build an "orbital plat form." much like a flying hotel that will operate out in space It is expected to be completed within about live years. The "platform." he says, will be assembled in space by join ing together a number of space ships to form what he calls "a sort of hotel." He adds that it will be manned by a number of astronauts who will slay out there for soclls of five to six days. Women, Sir Bernard says, will almost certainly take part in the enterprise. What about us? Well, a dispatch from Seattle this morning says: "Five scientists entered a space chamber here yesterday for a test of an integrated life-support sys tem such as would be needed on a space station or on a moon base. They may stay for 30 days, depending upon what they learn and how well they hold up. "The test is being conducted by the Boeing Company, and is the first to include all elements of life support for a 130 man-day space mission. Crew members will bathe in a closed - circuit shower, designed for use under WEIGHTLESS conditions. It has a separate water supply which is filtered and chemically treated for re-use. "Special diets of freeze-dried foods, some in squeeze tubes for simulated weightless feeding, in clude such items as shrimp cock tail, strawberries and peanut but ter sandwiches." Question: Why the squeeze tubes? Well, out in space, you know, one is WEIGHTLESS. So, if the astronauts' food were merely put on the table and the word given to come and get it, it would be likely to float off around the room. So it will be put in tubes, en abling the astronaut to grasp a tube containing his breakfast, his lunch or his dinner and eat while he floats around the space cham ber. There's always a way, you see, to get around problems. How about a bath in the "closed - circuit" shower? It would be quite an experience to f J; a shower while floating aijind the room with the water flowing UP from your feet. This space travel is going to be SOMETHING when we get around to it. NO OTHERS LIKE THEM A brand new innovation in dog training is this act to be seen at the coming Shrine Polack Brothers Circus in Klamath Palls Aug. 2-3. The Do berman Pinschers, 10 of them, usually bred for their ability as guard and police dogs, will be put through their act by Aldo Cristiani who has selected them for their intelli gence, alertness and gentleness. They will perform drills and mass maneuvers that prior to this time only ponies have accomplished. This is the only act of Doberman Pin schers performing anywhere in the world. Tickets for the big circus, largest to come ta Klamath Falls this year, are on sale at circus headquarters in the Klamath Auditorium. Weather Klamam Falls. Tulalaka. and Lakavww: Partly cloudy throufh Thursday mjtit with acattartd alttrnowi and tvsmnf thtindtrshowtrs. Lews tonight 43-st. Highs Thursday 707t. waslarly winds S-1S nt.p.h. High ytsterday ; Low this morning u High ytar ago it Low ytar ago 41 frti. past M hours traco Swca Jan. 1 4.11 Samt pariod last yaar 1.11 Rail Crisis Mediation Hope Seen WASHINGTON (L'Pli-A spe cial fact-finding committee today began preparation of its report to President Kennedy on the rail road work rules dispute. There were indications of backstage ef forts, meanwhile, at mediation to avert a possible nationwide strike. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz presided as the six - man board began work on the first draft of its survey of the issues and positions of union and man gement in the rail crisis. The report is expected to be submit ted to President Kennedy Friday. Declines Comment Wirtz declined comment on re ports that committee members were attempting to mediate the dispute, but informed sources said such efforts were being made despite a statement by rail road management officials that only congressional action could avert a strike. The President has said he will submit legislation Monday to set tle the dispute to head off a pos sible strike that could occur if the railroads place new work rules into effect July 29 as planned. The new rules would eventually eliminate 55,000 jobs and include other economy moves. The administration's concern over the seeking a settlement of the dispute by legislation prob ably including compulsory arbit ration was unerlined Tuesday in a speech by Assistant Labor Secretary Daniel P. Moynihan be fore the Switchmen's Union con vention at Buffalo, N.Y. "Still Time" "There is still time to make collective bargaining work in the railroad industry," Moynihan said. - " With each passing hour our hopes become more concentrated that both management and labor will see that the alternative to a voluntary decision will be an im posed decision and that would be a terrible thing," he said. It would result in a blow to pride, a loss of liberty, a failure all around." Copies of the fact-finding com mittee's report will be submitted to both labor and management leaders tonight for their com ments, a Labor Department spokesman said. The document, summarizing and highlighting the facts in the case, will be polished Thursday before going to the President. The railroad executives issued statement Tuesday saying the only way a strike could be avert ed by the end of the month was for Congress to dictate the steps for settlement of the controversy. They said legislation was "the only remaining means we can see of heading off a calamitous na tionwide rail strike." There was no reaction at the White House to the management statement, but officials did point out that the President had made it clear that he would not ask for another time extension beyond Julv 29. .:I:L:v. Price Ten Cents 20 Pages HERE THEY COME Entries for competition in the Ninth Annual Basin Junior Rodeo have reached an all-time high of 159 boys and girls from all parts of Oregon and California. Junior Rodeo officials expect the number to pass 165 before the first day on Saturday, July 20, after entries by letter arc counted. The competition in all events is expected to be keen this year for saddles for the Ail-Around high point con testants in the senior and junior classifications. A royal court will be on hand to help cheer the riders and the ropers. This year's court includes, left to right,- Princess Dianne Atwood of Macdoel, Queen Anne Rodgers of Klamath Falls, and Princess Nelda Ack ley of Tglelake. The program will start both Saturday and Sunday, July 20-21, at 12:30 p.m. with a cutting horse event followed by the grand entry at I p.m. Partial Test Ban MOSCOW (UPI) - The United States, Britain and Russia stepped up the pace of nuclear negotiations today, with early op timism tempered by fears that Soviet calls for an East-West non aggression pact might hinder progress toward a nuclear test ban. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, U.S. Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman and Britain's Lord Hailsham met this afternoon in the third straight day of negotiations amid reports they were moving in the direction of at least a partial nuclear test ban.-- " "" i Gromyko was giving a dinner for the chief American t.id Brit ish negotiators tonight following the regular afternoon session m the Siridonovka Palace. It was the first announced evening gath ering of the three-power dele gates. . Caution Against Optimism Although the initial meetings have been surrounded by a cor diality unprecedented in recent cold war history, Western sour ces cautioned against undue op timism" that the talks would achieve a break-through in the two possible stumbling blocks: The danger that the Soviets might try to link a nuclear test agreement with their repeated call for a non-aggression pact be tween NATO and the Communist Warsaw Pact nations. The possibility that the Rus sians might insist on an unpoliced moratorium on underground test ing to accompany a ban on other forms of nuclear tests. The So viets have steadfastly refused to agree to Western demands that a minimum of seven on-site in spections a year be held to police an underground ban. Diplomats here said the opti mism felt about the talks was without precedent in recent cold war history. Western sources said there was "no reason to change U.Or ORE.LIB5A3I NSoBPAPlCK SECTIOtf GEN.RF.AND DOCUHEMTS DIV. CUaEttE.OBSG r sswasswasssji Lssl il-nii't1 tft wlflflltMiii I the view" that the three nuclear powers could conclude a treaty banning tests in the atmosphere. in outer space, and under water. even it they could not agree on underground tests. Vivid Contrast The possibility of East-West agreement after long months of U.S. Plans Dollar Lure WASHINGTON (UPI) The government today opened an in tensified campaign to reduce the balance of payments deficit by luring dollars away from more attractive investment markets out side U.S. borders. It set off a chain reaction of economic forces expected to push up U.S. short-term interest rates slightly to make them more com petitive with those of foreign banks. The White House announced on Tuesday that President Kennedy would give Congress Thursday a progress report on the U.S. bal ance of payments problem which is a source of growing apprehen sion both here and abroad. Kennedy is not expected to pre scribe new, untried medicine. In stead, it is believed that he will recommend adhering to the pres ent policy, only with renewed efforts. The United States ended 1962 with a $2.2 billion balance of pay ments deficit. This shot up to an estimated annual rate of $3.3 bil lion during the first three months of this year. The payments gap the difler- ence between dollars spent by U.S. citizens abroad and those that foreigners spend here has been serious enough in recent years to cause a sizable erosion of U.S. gold stocks. A good chunk of the uelicit re sults from U.S. capital being en ticed out of this country by for eign bankers offering higher in terest rates. The Federal Reserve Board moved to stem this Tuesday by authorizing seven reserve banks to Increase the so-called redis count" rate from 3 per cent to 3'a per cent. China, Russ Meet Again I'PIi Communist MOSCOW Chinese and Soviet negotiators tn - day resumed their ideological talks despite a steady worsening of relations between the two Com munist powers. The ideological teams met af ter a 24 - hour recess, during which Chinese negotiators were believed to have received fresh. instructions from Peking. It was believed thy were told to reply to the Soviet attack on Chinese policy published in Sun day's Pravda. Sin.e Moscow made the attack and distributed hire without a proper stale per il throughout the Communist mit, and Glen Brown, Echo, who world, tliere has been no full- was assessed $700 for seven cases scale Peking rebuttal. (of illegal hauling. COIP. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Possible deadlock was in vivid contrast to the widening split in the ranks of the Communist world. The friend liness and joking between Gro myko and Premier Nikita Khrush chev and the Western delegates made tlie Soviet snubs to Com munist China appear even strong er. Khrushchev has gone out of his way. to avoid the Chinese delega tion here for ideological talks. The Soviet press, which reports the nuclear negotiations in re strained language, prints columns of attacks on the Chinese. Western sources warned, how- ever, that f'undue outimism" should be avoided in assessing the chances of the nuc ear ta ks. This was an apparent reference to two possible obstacles faced by the West in its efforts to achieve a complete test ban. Underground tests require on- site inspections to ensure they are not confused with other seis mic disturbances, in the Western view, and the Soviets have re fused to agree to the minimum figure of seven inspections a year the West considers necessary. . Concern Over Policing There was apprehension that the Soviets would insist on an un policed moratorium on under ground testing to accompany the ban on the other forms of test ing. The other possible obstacle may be a Soviet attempt to link the testing agreement with a non-aggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw treaty powers. Hail sham and Harriman have no au thority to conclude such an agree ment, which requires NATO ap proval. The West has rejected such suggestions in the past, contend ing that a non-aggression pact at this stage would have only propa ganda value and not olfer real guarantees. Truck Plate Use Hit ' SALEM (UPI i-A crackdown on. truckers who pose as aimers t" avoid fees paid by regular motor carriers has been started by Pub lic Utility Commissioner Jonel C, Hill. He said PLC investigators are checking violators who put low cost farm plates on their trucks land say they are hauling farm and other commodities to and from their own ranches while ac tually engaging in commercial transportation. "These operators arc not only violating stale law. thev are tak- jjng business that rightfully should : ill fSftcl , go to legitimate trucking firms'il'lC UP VafOOil Hill declared. Two Umatilla County men charged with repeated violations have been assessed penalties to taling t3.3O0. In addition Hill said the men have to Dav back Oregon use fees and penalties. The men were identified as Marion It. Chaves, Hermiston, who has been ordered to pay $2,600 for 26 counts of hauling for WEDNESDAY, Jl'LY 17, 13 I By United Press International Members of two lumber unions struck Georgia-Pacific Corp. oper ations at Coos Bay and Coquille, Ore., and Samoa, Calif., today, raising the number of workers idle in four western states to about 24.700. The only hopeful note in the lumber industry dispute today was the announcement that Simp son Timber Co. officials and those of the unions plan to meet again. Negotiators for the Lumber and Sawmill Workers (LSW) and the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) talked to repre sentatives of the company Tues day in Portland. Company labor relations administrator James W. Farmer said "sufficient progress was made to merit another meeting. He did not elaborate. The IWA set up pickets at Georgia-Pacific's plywood and hardboard plants at Coos Bay this morning, idling about 600 men. Another 450 were affected when two plywood plants and a stud mill were struck at Coquille. j A company spokesman said thei Coos Bay chemical plant, whose workers arc represented by an other union, was operating today. The strike at G-P's big Samoa complex in the Eureka area start ed at midnight when a redwood lumber mill and a plywood mill were struck. Some woods crews joined the strike this morning, but independent logging contractors in the redwood forests kept working. The strike in the Northern Cali fornia operation affected about 1,200 men, a company spokesman said. The two unions closed Georgia Pacific operations at Springfield and Toledo, Ore., Monday and Tuesday. Still in operation are plants at Olympia, Wash.; Feather Falls and Woodlcaf, Calif.: Pilot Rock Ore., and some woods operations at loieao. The dispute centers over wages and other provisions of a new contract to replace one which ex pired June 1. Meanwhile, negotiations toward a new contract m the Pacilic Coast pulp and paper industry continued today in Portland. They were resumed July 9 after the Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers and tlie United Paper makers and Paperworkers reject ed an offer by 48 West Coast plants. Short Supply Forecasted SEATTLE (UPIl-Lowry Wyatt. chief negotiator of tlie Big Six lumber companies, Tuesday fore cast a long shutdown as the re sult of tlie labor dispute in the Pacific Northwest lumber indus try. Wyatt, a vice president for the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., said the companies have submitted their final offer to the two unions involved in the dispute which has idled more than 24.700 workers in Washington, Oregon, Northern California and Montana. Wyatt, in Seattle for a news conference, said the companies simply could not meet the de mands of the Lumber and Saw mill Workers union and tlie Intor- national Woodworkers of America. Wval, forc..as, - snor, .11Dniv I and hifiher prices for lumber and i p,yw0,)( unles9 ,hcl.e is a sud(en change in demands by the unions The industry olfer made in a long session at Portland Monday included a 2(i ccnt hourly wage increase during the next three years. The unions were reported to have asked for a 35-cent hourly boost Soviet Boat SEATTLE ( UPI l A Russian trawler was sighted 30 miles off Neah Bay on the Washington coast Tuesday allcrnoon by Coast Guard patrol boat, the Coast Guard said. The patrol cralt made visual contact with the 125-foot Russian vessel, but did not communicate bv radio. The trawler was headed toward Alaskan waters, and spokesmen or both the Navy and Air Force said service units were keeping tabs on Its cctivitlcs. Three More L h West Closed By Telephone Local Union Members Receive Final Offer' 'A maximum and final offer" to the timber and lumber unions by the Big-Six negotiating com mittee was referred to in a let ter from J. B. Bishop, Klamath Falls Weyerhaeuser Company branch manager, to IWA employes ol (he company here. Bishop sent the letter to all employes Tuesday. Bishop s letter said, in part: ". . . Unfortunately the union chose to reject the employer of fer with no indication of their reasons for the turndown and with no indication of a change in their demands. Our association has bargained in good faith througlioiit all meetings with the union negotiators. Wc have made five improvements in wage of fers and made every effort to cooperate on reaching satisfactory agreements on other bargaining issues. "The association proposal would increase payroll costs by 27: cents per bour over a tiiree-year period. We feel that tins offer presented a real chance for set tlement with a realistic wage increase fur all employes rang Violence Segregation Demonstratio By United Press International Violence flared during an anti segregation demonstration a t Charleston, S.C., Tuesday night and a Negro fireman was wound ed in one of a scries of shoot ing incidents in Savannah, Ga. Several hundred Negroes, stag ing Charleston s fourth racial demonstration of the day, began throwing bricks at policemen and firemen in front of a newspa per office. Six officers and a fire man were injured. Reinforced by state troopers, police dispersed the demonstrators and arrested 95 Negroes. Negro fireman Warnell Robin son, 27, was struck in the stom ach by a pistol bullet fired from a car containing white teen-agers at Savannah where shots also were fired into one white and one Negro residence. No one was hurt in the residential shootings. Robinson, reported in good con dition, was part of a street stakeout" detail guarding fire alarm boxes. False alarms have been a feature of racial vandal ism In Savannah recently. Police later cornered a car at drive-in restaurant and look two youths and two girls, all white, into custody. The teen agers said two other youths, car rying .22 caliber pistols, had fled moments before officers arrived. At Cambridge, Md., National guardsmen rushed to the home of .-.- ti ii 1 1 GEMINI ASTRONAUTS Three possible Gemini astronauts arrive In Sacramento for a briefing on the rocket boosters from Aero-Jet General officials. Alvin L. Fold man, manager of the Titan and Gemini programs for Aero-Jet, left, is shown here host ing the astronauts with coffee. They are, left to right, Maj, Frank Borman, Maj, Virgil IGusI Grissom and Maj. Gordon Cooper. UPI Telephoto TU 4-8111 No. 7196 umber ing from 24 cents per hour to 44 cents per hour in some jobs. Our company considered this new offer to end the work stop page as a major move. The wage offer over a three-year period beginning June 1, 1903, includes 10 cents per hour increase this year plus additional adjustments in special skilled classifications, and seven cents per hour increas es would become effective on June 1, 1904, and June 1, 1965. The increases proposed amount to over $1,000 per employe over the three-year period. "On the matter of overtime pay and scheduling seven-day 24- hour operations in plywood par ticle board and similar panel product plants, the companies said they wore willing to recog nize every possible safeguard in order to prevent on-agaiiv-off-again work scheduling in seven day 24-hour operations. There would be no change in overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week or eight hours per day. Overtime would also be paid for work on the sixth Flares Up Durint a guard officer Tuesday night to investigate a report that a white woman was struck in the finger by a bullet. Guard officials said Mrs. George Horner Jr., wife of a lieutenant colonel, reported "hearing a bullet (and) something struck her finger. Guardsmen have been keeping peace in the city while Negro and while lead ers attempt to iron out racial problems. Elsewhere in the nation: New York Seven major American anti-segregation organi zations have formed a single emergency" council to expand the fight for civil rights. It will be known as the Council (or Unit ed Civil Rights Leadership. Columbus, Ga. City officials Tuesday closed tlie public swim ming pools for whites and Ne groes following an attempt by three Negro youths to enter tlie white pool. A group of about 30 white youths threw rocks at about 20 Negroes as they were leaving the public library. No one was hurt. Thomasvllle, N.C. Police bod ily moved about 40 Negroes from in front of a segregated theater Tuesday night. New York City One hun dred city policemen stood guard Tuesday while a 12-man construc tion crew, including four Negroes, crossed intcgrationist picket lines at the Harlem branch of Manu Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Ctntinutd bilew normal ttmptriturtM through Monday with ptriodt flf howf or thundcrihowm. Hivin outlook vary tag poor to good. EighHncti toil torn pcralurt 64. Mills Strike and seventh day of the work schedule. 'Tlie companies also volun unteered to join in a study of the problem of extensive travel for some woods employes. We recognized this problem and sug gested a joint committee attempt to work out the details guaran teeing a wage increase for those employes required to travel long hours to reach remote work areas. "Our proposal was made to end a controversy that already has gone too long. Wo must consid er this as our maximum and final offer. The union's refusal to give serious consideration to settle tlement leaves us in tlie posi tion of talking to ourselves. Our association is willing to meet again with the unions at any time there appears to be a chance of agreement. Wo have told the union that in view of the sub stantial offer made, each of you as employes should have the opportunity to express your opin ion on tins olfer. We sincerely hope that there will be an early move to end this dispute. facturers Hanover Trust Co. for tlie first time in almost two weeks. The contractor signed an agreement with tlie Greater New York Committee for Equal Oppor tunity to be "color-blind" and use men sent by unions, regard less of race. Shreveport, La. Investigators from tlie Justice and Defense De partments arrived Tuesday to conduct a two-day probe into al leged discrimination near Barks- dale Air Force Base. Traffic Group Requested SALEM (UPI) The Oregon Highway Users Conference today asked Gov. Mark Hatfield to ap point a statewide citizens traffic safety committee to make high way safely recommendations to legislative groups. Noting the record highway death rate in the state, Gcorgo Dewey, secretary of the Oregon Farm Bureau and chairman of tlie Highway Users group, said the new committee should also stimulate highway and traffic safety on the local level. ; The Oregon Highway Users Com ference is made up of 27 state wide associations who use the highways in their business. 1 7 o't .
