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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-
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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.
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CHILOQU1N Volunteers are
needed to help the Klamath Res
ervation Jaycecs level and rake
the Chiloquin High School foot-
field Monday evening, July
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Persons interested should bring
rakes and report to the new foot
ball field at 7 p.m.
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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
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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!
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! 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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.