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Newspaper Page TextCOJIPi "A MSISPAPER' SECrtOS ' gen.ref, and docuhehts OIV. In The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk today about guns. It's always an interesting sub ject, and a particularly interest ing old gun find has just been made over in the Snake River country. The finder is Jack Gal lagher, a biologist with the Bu reau of Commercial Fisheries. There were ten of the old weap ons, and he came upon them by the purest accident. He was SCU BA diving in the Snake river in search of metal salmon tags that is, aluminum tags attached to the fins of hatchery salmon to enable the fish biologists to trace more accurately the migrations of the fish after their release from the hatcheries. The old guns were discovered In a mud-filled eddy between Swan Falls and Walters - Ferry on the Snake, about 45 miles south of Boise. James Brinda, of Ontario, has traced their his tory, and identifies them as: A Spencer carbine, caliber .50. A "Kentucky repeater," possi bly made by Burnside or Whit ney. .jjwo Henry repeaters, one with a brass receiver, patented in loliO and IStoi. A Springfield flintlock muzzle loader. U.S. Army caliber .09. A Sharps percussion carbine caliber .54 round barrel buffalo gun patented in 1859 and another caliber .50, patented in 1852, with an octagonal barrel. A Winchester 1866 lever action caliber 44-80. A Colt slide action Lightning repeater, caliber .44. ' A USN Springfieid single shot percussion breech loader. Judging by the condition of the wood, Mr. Brinda estimates that the guns had been under water for a period of between 65 and 80 years. The metal, he reported, was in surprisingly good condi tion. Where they came from is a mystery. Mr. Brinda surmises that they might have been lost when a trader's boat capsized in the Snake. Or, he says, they might have been part of a shipment of guns from the Silver City mines. Whatever their history, there must be a fascinating story back of their loss some three-quarters of a century ago if Mr. Brinda's estimate of tho length of time they have been under water is reasonably accurate. . Docs any reader of this news paper know why these old guns were dumped into the Snake riv er back in what must have been the early days of the West? That brings up another old gun story. In 1872, when the Modoc Indians retired into the fastnesses of what is now the Lava Beds National Monument and stood off a U.S. army for weeks, their sharpshoot ers, hidden in the cracks and seams of the lava beds, picked off a considerable number of the attacking troops. Legend has it that the. troopers' rifles were picked up by the Mo docs and carried back into their stronghold. The story goes that these rifles were put ui a cave and the cave was roughly walled up. Many years ago. Peter Sconchin told this writer that he was a boy of seven or eight years at the time of the battle and that he re membered quite clearly seeing the guns put into the cave. He said he believed that. if he could go back and make a careful search he might be able to recog nize the spot. He confirmed the story of the walling up of the cave containing the guns. He said the wall was roughly built of lava blocks and fragments, and might have gone ufc.ecugmzeu over an me inter vening decades. We made several appointments to go down to tiie Lava Beds and carry on a search, but something always intervened to cause a post ponement. Before we could get around to it, Mr. Sconchin passed away. Presumably, the old guns are still there wailing for some ob servant searcher to find the wall that closed the cave containing them. If so, it would be quite a find. Jazz & Pop Concert Today Everybody's welcome to at tend the free Pop and Jazz Con cert in the Veterans Memorial Park July 28 everybody but mosquitoes. Families planning to take a picnic lunch and stay for the music, square dancing and homemade Ice cream from J In i in the afternoon, may leave the hug repellent at home. Gary Woodring, park and rec reation supervisor, says his crew ill spray Veterans Memorial Park and surrounding area ear ly Sunday morning to make sure none of the sharp-noted little Calr-frnshrrs come to the parly- Weal her Ktamalfc Palls. Tulalaha and Lakavtaw Fair May and Manoav. Hh taday 71-M. Law Sunday Riant 4J-Sa. High wan day lt-n. Wind! Iigftl, variabla undar la m.p.a. Kieh Saturday aa Low Saturday nwrnlnf S4 Higft ytar aaa ta Lew yaar aaa SI Pracip. lait 14 hauri .aa Sinca Jan. 1 a.lt Sama parlod last yaar l.ll I I - "' 'Ixtsrv ' t SUFFOCATED The body of Billie Joe Masters, Sul phur, Okie., a transient, lies amid the debris of this up stairs room in a boarded up house at the corner of Main and Michigan streets, about 50 feet from the Southern Pacific tracks. Firemen were called to the scene early Saturday morning by Bill Mitchell, SP engineer, who spotted the smoke from the cab of his engine. Fire of ficials speculate Masters suffocated after he went to sleep while smoking a cigarette. D ef e n s e C o n s id e r s Integration Rule By United Press International . Tlie Defense Department took steps Friday to wipe out racial discrimination in towns border ing military bases. Defense Secretary Robert Mc Namara said that such communi ties which practice "relentless" discrimination against Negro troops may be declared off-lim its to all military personnel. McNamara, in issuing the or der, said off-base discrimination was as damaging to military ef fectiveness as off-base vice, which often brings off-limits di rectives. The McNamara directive could have serious repercussions in the South, where more than a half million servicemen are stationed. But many Southern officials be lieved that recent progress in de segregation in Dixie would re strict use of the oft-limits order. At Sumter, S. C, Friday about 300 persons marched down Main Street in a surprise antisegrega lion demonstration, but there were no incidents and no arrests. In Atlanta police arrested a bi racial group of 13 demonstrators who sal in a street in front of a segregated restaurant and blocked traffic. Sixteen Negroes picketed a public swimming pool Morgan Studies Governor Race PORTLAND (UPI Outgoinginew hearing on a request for an Federal Power Commissioner! Howard Morgan said Friday night by law of public iacilities in Al that he has not decided if he willbany, Ga. be a Democratic candidate tor governor in 1966. Morgan, lormer state party chairman who has been promi nently mentioned as a candidate. made the statement at a news who has been identified as one conference before a dinner speech' time organizer for the Communist to members of the West Side! Party. Democratic Club here. Washington James Farmer, di- "I'm not trying a dance of veils i rector ot the Congress of Racial here." lie said. "I have no firm. Equality iCOREi, told a Senate plans." ) ICISUIIdl aim lUiiiiLdi pi uu-j lems must be resolved before I make a decision. I have twol years. But Morgan added "I'm not in-i tcrcsted in any other oflice I'mi not interested in the U.S. Senate."' Morgan, who also is former. Oregon Public Utilities Commis sioners, said he hoped to he through as a member of tlie FPC by Aug. 15. He asked President Kennedy not to be reappointed to the commis-lball sion. He disagreed with its poll - jcies. Morgan owns a ranch near Sisters. Price Fifteen Cents tat Baton Rouge, La., Friday in an orderly protest. Refused At Counters About 50 Negro youths marched in Farmvillc, Va., Friday and tried unsuccessfully to get serv ice at five lunch counters. Negro leaders vowed to continue racial demonstrations until Prince Ed ward County reopens its public schools, closed four years ago to avoid desegregation. Other developments included: Clcmson, S. C. A second Ne gro student has been accepted at Clemson College, peacefully de segregated by Harvey Gantt last January, and will enter the school in September Columbia, S.C. The University of South Carolina may admit three Negro students this fall in its first desegregation since re- constructor New York A Negro leader warned Friday, despite a subsid ing of civil rights demonstrations, that renewed demonstrations would be staged in the nation's largest city where 534 demonstra tors have been arrested. Washington The Federal Com munications Commission (FCC) told radio and television broad casters Friday to let Negro lead ers express their views also w hen they present controversial pro grams on racial segregation. Reverses Decision New Orleans A federal ap peals court Friday reversed a lower court ruling and ordered a injunction forbidding segregation Atlanta Georgia Atty. Gen. Eu gene Cook invited integration leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to appear before him to explain his relationship with Jack O'Dcll, .Manpower subcommittee that job vj.i iuiiiiv met "siv o.vi the current civil rights bjtlle. i A-I,-,.C JCWR YVOrKcra Tft LCVel MClC! CHILOQU1N Volunteers are needed to help the Klamath Res ervation Jaycecs level and rake the Chiloquin High School foot- field Monday evening, July 120 Persons interested should bring rakes and report to the new foot ball field at 7 p.m. 48 Pages harriman Heports Obi Unclear Test Transient Suffocated In Blaze Billie Joe Masters, Rte. I, Box 31B, Sulphur, Okla.. was suf'o- cated here early Saturday in a fire that gutted one room of an empty house at the corner of Mam and Michigan streets. Bill Mitchell, an engineer for the Southern Pacific, spotted the smoke as his switch engine rolled past the empty house which is located w ithin 50 feet of t h e tracks. Firemen had to break through the boarded up premises in or der to get in and clear the area of smoke. They found the body of Masters lying in the corner of one of the upstairs rooms. Fire Chief Geno Gheller speculates that he was smoking a cigarette when he went to sleep and that some old clothing rolled up under his head smoldered. A resuscitator was immediate ly called but Masters failed to respond. A social security card on the body .provided identification. The home is owned by Marvin Lucas and has been vacant for some lime. Transients had used the house in the past and Lucas had boarded up the doors and windows. Apparently Masters had broken window in the downstairs door to get into the premises some time last night. City police were checking to determine whether he had been tnis area lor some time or just , passing through when he happened to pick this place for a night s rest. The body was taken to Ward's Klamath Funeral Home. Tax Referral Ballot Title Argument Set SALEM (UPD-Oral arguments on the ballot title for the pro posed referendum on the tax plan passed by the recent legislature will foe held at 2 p.m. Tuesday before the Oregon Supreme Court. A challenge to the title which had been prepared by Atty. Gen, Robert Y. Thornton was filed bv a Lane County group Thursday just 45 minutes before the deadline for such an appeal. There was no indication by the court when it might hand down a decision. Supreme Court approval of the ballot title is needed before pe titions can be circulated to place the tax bill on a special election More than 23.000 signatures are needed by Sept. 1 if the special election is to be held. U.S. Refutes Castro Claim WASHINGTON (L'PI) The United States Saturday rejected as "completely without lounda tion" Cuban Premier Fidel Cas tro's charge that he was swindled out of $10 million worth of supplies in the ransom deal for the Bay of Pigs prisoners. The State Department said Ca nadian and U.S. banks, which is sued a letter of credit guarantee ing delivery of $33 million in med ical supplies and other goods, re ported some time ago that the American Red Cross had fully met that commitment. Exiled Rulers Express Sorrow ruirir.n ii:nn Vviln Vino Peter II and Queen Alexandria of Yugoslavia have expressed their "deep sorrow and sincere sympa thy" to bereaved relatives of vie tims killed in Friday's earth quake. Tlie royal couple said here they were "deeply disturbed and snail - en" by the news from Yugoslavia "Our sincere condolences are Inffored with prayers imploringiWar II and turned the country God that this destructive forceinlo a Communist but independ dncs nut recur within the borders, ent nation alter the war, r of Yugoslavia," they said. jceived an almost tumultuous wl- KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TREATY TALKS President Kennedy shown withW. Averlll Harriman, left, and Sec retary of State Dean Rusk as they met at the Chief Executive's vacation home on Squaw Island at Hyannis Port, Mass., Saturday.. Harriman reported to President Ken nedy and Rusk on the nuclear test ban treaty. President Appeals For Support Of Test Treaty WASHINGTON 1UPII Let, history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step." With these words, President Kennedy appealed to the Ameri can people Friday night to sup port what he termed Hie all-im portant first step toward" peace and away from war the partial nuclear test ban agreed upon ten tatively in Moscow. He said-the agreement, which now faces i debate over Senale confirmation is not Die end of the cold war but said it would "symbolize the end of one era and the beginning of another." He said the United States was not letting down its guard but em- Leader Inspects Flattened City SKOPLJE, Yugoslavia (UPD A new tremor rocked earthquake- devastated Skoplje Saturday asj , , , . U.S. Air rorce planes launenca massive airlift and President Tito inspected the rubble of this once busy "model city" in which thous ands of persons were feared buried. Rescue center officials said that by nightlall about 1.000 bod ies had been pulled from the I rubble and "several thousand" I persons w ere known to be in jured. The officials said the death toll 1 would reach at least 2,000 but there were fears that additional thousands may have been killed in the quake that destroyed about 80 per cent of the Macedonian capital that was to have been the showplace ot ugoslav commu nism. An estimated 100.000 persons were made homeless. Yugoslav newsmen near Tito reported the tremor wobbled the earth a few seconds alter the grim-laced leader stepped into the once proud, now ruined main square that bears his name. The old soldier did not flinch the reports said. Tito, they said, walked on, in tent on watching rescue crews recovering bodies and searching for the many persons still trapped. Tanjug said about 100 smaller tremors have been registered sinc-e fnday mornings lirst shock. Unofficial reports said Saturday morning s tremor was "minor and mild. It did little more Ihan cause rescue workers to look up from their shovels and pLkj and then return to their! , . -'"" '" ! Tlie reports said Tito, who led a guerrilla rebellion during World! SUNDAY. JULY 28, 1963 pjiasizcd the need lor lessening ot.nol world tension. Three times in the last two and one-half years I have been required to report to you as Pres ident mat this nation and the So viet Union stood on the verge of direct military confrontation in Laos, in Berlin and in Cuba," he said. u. In a tiatjonally broadcast and telecast speech, his voice some times betraying the emotion of the moment, the President sought to make tlicse points: Discusses Limitations The treaty is limited in that it permits continued underground testing and provides for no in spections system to guard against cheating. It does not reduce the existing nuclear stockpiles, does .come from the survivors in the stricken city of 200,000. DKopije once veu sumL'uiini; ui a iiiuuui ui wnai aTi(().s bland of national commu. nism would do. Today he stepped through the debris-filled streets and passed the crumbled walls of earthquake-shattered apart ment houses and government buildings. Tito inspected the makeshift hospitals in the once green parks near the city's riverbanks. He talked to soldiers and civilian volunteers. The 70-year-old leader appeared deeply moved by what lie sawl and what he heard. Wi;;vv. u TITO INSPECTS Rescue workers atop ruined buildings, left, background, pause 4s watch i Yugoslavia's Preiident Tito, second from right, leads a party through the streets of earthquake-racked Skoplje Saturday. At right is Macedonia's President K. Crvenkovski. UPI Telophota Telephone halt production of nuclear weapons, and will not restrict their use in time of war. It docs promise, however, to reduce radically nuclear testing that has been poisoning tlie atmos phere and propelling the world closer to tlie brink of fantastic destruction. Tho treaty can he a step to ward agreements on other areas of world tension. It could lead to controls on preparations for sur prise attack, further limitations on nuclear armament or even general disarmament. It could be a step toward elimination of tlie dangers of ra dioactive fallout to this generation and untold future ones. "Tlie treaty is not tlie millcn- nun, tlie President said, it will not resolve all conflicts, or cause tlie Communists to forego their ambitions" for world conquest. " A Big Gain "But it is an important first step a step toward peace a step toward reason a step away from war," he said. "This treaty can be a step to ward preventing tlie spread of nu clear weapons to nations not now possessing them," the President said, including Irresponsible pow ers whose possession would leave "no rest for anyone." There is no certainty that the time has come for casing of the, cold war struggle, the President said, "but history and our own conscience will judge us harsher if we do not now mak nverv of. fort to lest our hopes by action and this is (lie place to begin. He quoted an old Chinese prov erb that says "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." "Let us take that first step," he said. In'.C- ' ,atJ r t TU 4-8111 No. 7203 HYANN1S PORT, Mass. IUPD Undersecretary of State W. Av- ercll Harriman told the nation Saturday the nuclear test ban pact just initialed in Moscow "is a good treaty" that will not prevent the use of atomic weapons in event of war. Harriman held a televised news conference after reporting person ally to President Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk on U.S.-British-Russian talks that led to conclusion of the pact which would ban all except underground nuclear tests. During his 90-minute conference with the President and Rusk, he delivered a personal message from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev described as "very friendly." Harriman said the treaty prob ably was a "very important step" World Hails Nuclear Ban Treaty Plan LONDON (UP1 1 Governments on both sides of the Iron Curtain hailed the nuclear test, ban treaty today, but from Communist China came an implied warning that it also will have an atom bomb in the not too distant future." President Charles de Gaulle of France, expected to ignore the treaty and continue testing, was attacked in the French press Fri day as an "isolationist" and t cold war extremist. He was urged to join the United States, Britain and Russia in tlie treaty As in the West, most countries1 in the Communist bloc praised the treaty as a possible step to-l ward instituting Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's policy of peaceful coexistence" and end ing the cold war. But they wereland millions of miles away from more inclined to urge a non-ag- grcssion pact between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, (NATO) and the Warsaw pact.. Tills is a move Moscow has ad- vnraifd lint that the West has re- sistcd so far from fear such an agreement would be regarded asj a Western ratification of Russia s domination of the "captive na-l lions" of Eastern Europe. In Budapest, the Hungarian ra dio commented on the nuclear treaty by claiming that "the So viet peace offensive forced the west to agree to a settlement of. this Important question. Radio Warsaw called it a tri umph for" President Kennedy who can tell American electors that his government was able to reach an agreement which will diminish the danger of war break-i ig out." The Czech news agency Ceteka, said the treaty opened "a new page in the history of relations between East and Wast. The Communist press in Yugoslavia called it "the first link in a pos sible chain of new agreements." In London, Prime Minister Ha rold Macmillan's voice trem- bled as he read to Parliament! ,thilt Part. of. treaty preamble! which said it might help "put an end to the arms race. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, in Frankfurt, Germany Friday as part of a world tour, issued a warning in connection with the partial treaty, I l.i I " ' J Weather AGRICULTURAL POP.ICAST Cantimiad fair and d tfttla cealar Sun- -' day. Hayinp outlook oacallant da dryln) condition! ara naar aartact. toward a possible thawing of tlie cold war. "It carries out what we have wanted to do for a good many years," he said. He added that the treaty was "a first step of importance in the attempts we have been making for a good many years to try and make a beginning of the control of nu-' clear weapons." The U.S. negotiator also ven tured an opinion on why Khrush chev had reversed previous Soviet opposition to such a partial treaty. 'I think it is fairly clear that Mr. Khrushchev wanted to show the (Communist) Chinese that his policy of co-existence could pre sent some results," Harriman said. Harriman said tlie agreement had caused "real rejoicing" throughout Europe and among the Russian people. "The Russian people dread war and they are ready to see progress made anything a step closer to the peace they crave," he said. One harrowing element of the future, as Kennedy made clear In his appeal to the American public for support of tlie treaty, is the debate which will precede a Sen ate vote on ratification of tlie par tial test ban pact. There is significant opposition to it. including that of Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., and Kennedy seemed to be trying to answer every critical question that might tie raised, one key poult, in terms of the Senate debate, that he tried to make: "We have, and under this treaty we will continue to have, all tlie nuclear strength that we need . . . and our security is not therefore, impaired, by the treaty I am discussing." The President made painstafc ing efforts to boom values of the ' treaty even pointing up that the United States could detect Soviet - l tests hundreds and thousands ine earui. Kennedy's aides were in a high state of satisfaction at the Presi dent's television Appearance, con. sidering it a warm appeal to the nation to back what he called a tirst step to "get oack from the shadows of war and seek out the way of peace." Union Leader Opposes JFK Rail Proposal WASHINGTON (UPI) - Fire men's Union President H. E. Gil bert urged Saturday that Congress put railroad rules negotiations in "a goldfish bowl" under its di rection to get a strikefree settle ment. Gilbert told a special Saturday session of tlie Senate Commerce Committee that such action would give a "shot in the arm" to tlie four-year-old rail dispute. The union leader opposed Pres ident Kennedy's proposal, under consideration by the committee, to turn tlie dispute over to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. Gilbert said Kennedy's plan amounts to compulsory arbitral tion, even if supporters may re gard it as "just a little bit" of compulsory arbitration. Instead, Gilbert proposed that bargaining sessions proceed be-, tween railroad management and the five rail brotherhoods under 'congressional direction and ob servation." He said that Congress might assign a joint committee to ride herd on tlie session and make pe riodic reports on tlie attitudes of tlie parties "and their conduct of good faith." Gilbert said in an interview with United Press International that the idea would be to place negotiations in a "goldfish bowl." Gilbert's basic complaint against tlie President's strike set tlement proposal was that it would be "the hole in the dike" for compulsory arbitration. As to the single issue which vitally concerns his union tlie work rule which would remove an estimated 32,500 firemen from the cabs of diesel locomotives,' Gilbert said the union does not contend that no firemen posts on diesels can be abandoned. Ho said the union, in a letter to La bor Secretary W. Willard Wirti. has recently underscored Its wil lingness to approve a formula which would eliminate 1,500 jobs.