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Meany Says Government n.Hl.UTOX (UPI AFL CIO President George Meany told Congress today that if it is going to "compel" railroad employes to work it ought also to think about ending private ownership of the uiousiry. "It's a natural followup," Meany told the House Commerce Com mittee. Meany said that if employes can be forced to accept certain working conditions because their industry has "paramount public merest then the "next logical step is that these industries should not be the medium for private proni. The labor leader called on the mmittee to reject President Kennedy's plan for settling the four-year-old railroad work rules dispute. The President wants the matter referred to the Interstate! Commerce Commission (ICO. Meany noted that the adminis tration does not consider the pro posal as a form of compulsory arbitration. "I do not know if it is compul sory arbitration," he said, "but I do know it is compulsory.' Meany said Congress would be acting more in the public interest if it adopted a plan for settle ment he offered several days ago Under the Meany plan, the rail road unions and management would be directed to continue collective bargaining under the close scrutiny of a congressional watchdog committee. Negotiation would continue until the commit tee decided that no further prog ress was necessary. Asked by one committee mem ber what would happen then Meany replied: "It puts it back to Congress as it is now, and Congress would have to do something." Asked what Congress should do then. Meany answered that he had no opinion now, but he would when the time came. "I hope we don't get to that point," he added. Meany described his proposal as In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Secretary of State Dean Rusk and a bipartisan delegation (meaning a delegation composed of members of two parties) will leave for Moscow Friday night to attend the formal signing of the nuclear test ban treaty. The White House announced the plan Wednesday and named the senatorial delegates as Demo crats J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas, Hubert Humphrey of Minneso ta and John 0. Pastore of Rhode Island. The Republicans named are Leverett Saltonstall of Mas sachusetts and George Aiken of Vermont. Why the delegation of senators? The answer is quite simple. Before it can become effective, the nuclear test ban treaty will have to be ratified by the U.S. senate. Since the senate must either ratify or reject the treaty it seems logical that members of the U.S. senate should sit in on the final sessions at which the treaty will be signed thus get ting an opportunity to draw their own conclusions as to the Tight ness or the wrongness of it. The dispatches add that the list notably omitted Senator Ev erett M. Dirksen, the senate Re publican leader from Illinois, and Senator Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, senior GOP member of the senate foreign relations commit tee. Both of these Republicans have Indicated that they did not want to attend the Moscow signing and have left it open as to how they might vote on the atomic test ban treaty when it comes belore the senate for ratification. Which is to say: Thcv weren't LEFT They STAVED out. out. Questions: Were 1 hey right? Or were they wrong? Those are difficult questions. The treaty, of course, has polit ical overtones. It was initiated (from our side! by a Democratic President. If it turns out to be highly successful, it will be a feather in President Kennedy's cap. Most of us. I think, HOPE it will turn out to be successful that it may be the first step toward ending the cold war that has been waged so long. It may. of course, be a communist strata gem. It will be up to the senate to decide whellier it is good or bad. Personally, I can't help feeling that Senator Dirksen and Sena- tor Hickenlooper would be in a better position to judce the treaty accurately if they went to Mos cow nd sat in on the signing of it. "a last shot at collective bargain ing. J. E. Wolfe, chief negotiator for the railroads, told the Senate Com merce Committee Wednesday night that "positive, deep-seated and pervading" differences sepa rated the carriers and the five railroad unions involved. Wolfe dismissed the Meany plan and said it was "highly improb able" that the dispute could be settled if Congress does not ap prove President Kennedy's plan. The Senate committee today called Lester P. Schoene. Wash ington attorney representing the: rail unions, and then planned to close the record of its hearings. Acting Chairman John 0. Pastore. D R. I., said the committee would go into executive session Aug. 8 to act on the proposed legislation. Wolfe said earlier Wednesday that the carriers had made "some adjustments" in their proposals tor settling the dispute and avoid Klamath Fall!, Tuitlakt and Lakevltw Fair tonight and Friday with llltlt changa In temperature. Lows tonight 37. High Friday M-IS. Windi northwest erly S-1S m.p.h. High yesterday 7T Low this morning 50 High year ago as Low year ago 41 Preclp. past 24 hours 0 Since Jan. 1 , i.U Same period last year 1.11 Governor's Offer Eases OFF TO NOSTALGIA Ex-President Dwight D. Eisen hower, Mrs. Eisenhower and Commodore F. G. Watts, right, captain of the Queen Elizabeth, wave from the ocean liner on departure from New York. Ike was bound for France to visit the beaches of D-day, in what he called an "adventure in nostalgia." UPI Telephoto Ex-President On 'Nostalgia Jaunt NEW YORK IUPI) Former. President Dwight' D. Eisenhower was bound today for an "adven ture into nostalgia" along the beaches of Normandy and in Eng land. Eisenhower thus described his one-week trip to Europe with his wife, Mamie, during a news con- U.N. Troops Guard Truce SEOUL, Korea t UPI 'Swelter ing American and Korean soldiers of the United Nations Command patrolled gingerly along the truce line today on guard against fur ther infiltration from Communist North Korea. Three skirmishes between U.N troops and Red infiltrators Mon day and Tuesday killed four North Koreans, three Americans and one South Korean in what has been called the gravest series of inci dents since the Korean War ended 10 years ago last Saturday. Over the years both sides have filed thousands of complaints about violations of the truce. In the two weeks before the latest se ries of skirmishes, five other North Korean infiltrators were killed. But the new series was the norst concentration of incidents on record and it occurred six miies south of the demilitarized zone. the deepest Red penetration into South Korean territory since the war ended The INC said there was more firing Wednesday, apparently warning shots by U.N. troops. Rail Plan Takeover' ing a nationwide strike, giving rise to hope that give-and-take col lective bargaining might begin. Wolfe said "in a sense" the ad justments could be considered con cessions but he emphasized that the proposals mainly were trans lations into collective bargaining terms of recommendations made earlier by a presidential board. Wolfe said the railroads be lieved further negotiations in the four-year-old dispute would be "fruitless" without the aid of a program such as President Ken nedy proposed. He blamed the un ions for the impasse that brought about the presidential action. Labor Secretary W. Willard; Wirtz met in his office Wednes day with railroad management negotiators but had no comment on the session. Wolfe told the committee he did not want to say the dispute is be yond all collective bargaining but "it appears hopeless. Price Ten Cents 28 Pages Departs ference Wednesday aboard the Queen Elizabeth shortly before the liner sailed. "I plan to walk up and down the Normandy beaches and visit Portsmouth, England," he said. The decision to launch the D-Day Allied invasion of France was reached in a conference room at Portsmouth. The former Chief Executive, who is visiting Europe to make a television documentary film deal ing with the invasion, also said current Negro civil rights demon strations emphasize "the rightful discontent of a minority." I understand their purposes." he said. "1 agree with those who sav thev are entitled to their just rights. I disagree with all things that become so violent that they have contrary effects." "If they call attention to their discontent by proper demonstra tions, I feel it is all right," he said. "Every individual in the United States has a legal and moral ob- ligation to see others enjoy the same rights. We must eliminate every possibility of differentiating between political and economic rights on the basis of color." Eisenhower said he would re serve comment on the recently signed partial nuclear test ban among the United States. Britain and the Soviet Union "because we still have to hear military and scientific opinion on the wholei thing." On the GOP presidential nomin ation, he said that he could strong ly support "anyone who has been mentioned for the Republican can didacy . . . because I think we can get better leadership from them than we are getting now from the present administration." u.or oaE.imARt MSPAPER BECriOM r.FJJ.REF.AItU uuwu- ! if 1 V . st .... SURVIVORS FLEE Carrying their belongings, survivors of (he July 26 earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia, leave this battered town. Three new quakes rapped the area to day. Engineers dynamited buildings to keep down the threat of disease from rotting corpses of quake victims lodged hopelessly in the ruins. UPI Telephoto KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. By United Press International Spread of the Northwest lumber strike halted, at least temporarily, today after Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield offered the services of his office in helping to settle the dispute which has idled about 29.000 workers. It appeared the respite from new strikes would be brief, how ever. Harvey Nelson, Region 3 presi dent of the International Wood workers of America HWA, indi cated more walkouts were planned against the 196-member Timber Operators Council, but he declined to say when. "It might be tomorrow or it might not be until next week," he said. Nelson and executive secretary Earl Hartley of the Western Coun cil of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers (LSW) met with Gov, Hatfield for nearly two hours in Salem, Wednesday. No Intervention Planned Nelson said they simply dis cussed the issues involved. The governor's office indicated he planned to meet with management leaders, but had no intention now of intervening directly in the dis pute. Hatfield talked to some top in dustry officials Tuesday at Coos Bay when he attended a preview Maintenance Stricken Fire The fire guard at Hogback Mountain is alive today because slate radio maintenance man called at the lookout tower and found the stricken guard lying on the floor, about 11 a.m., Wed nesday. The guard was William A. Beck, fifi, stricken with a hem orrhaging ulcer, who was re moved from Hogback to the Old Fort Road by the County Disaster Unit and from there transferred to Peace Ambulance and taken to Hillside Hospital. Beck s condition was listed as improved, a hospital spokesman said early today. Officials o( the Klamath For-i est Protective Association s u s- pected that something was amiss at the Hogback Lookout about 10 a.m. when Beck failed to radio his usual weather report to asso cialion headquarters. George Wardcll. supervisor of the KFPA. remarked Thursday. A guard from another lookout station transmitted his weather information to the KFPA radio office and disclosed that he had not heard Beck give his morn ing report. Beck, who apparently heard the conversation over his receiver, cut in and remarked Base Fires Big Atlas VANDE.VBERG AFB. Calif. 'UPD A giant Atlas interconti nental ballistic missile ICBM' was blasted Wednesday toward a target 7.000 miles out to sea oli the Philippine Islands. It was the second Atlas missile to be launched within two days. TV first was launched Tuesday only a few hours before a sat ellite believed to have been of the Discoverer scries vas launched toward polar orbit fiom this same Pacific Coast missile base. The Air Force did not give the de tails of the satellite launch. c0p' !e:MW:-. V... I: .1 ft 1 OA 1 lS-r, -3 THURSDAY. AUGUST 1. 13 Lumber of a new Weyerhaeuser Co, plant. Nelson and Hartley said today they have no meetings scheduled' with any firms, but were hopeful that sessions could be set up with Georgia - Pacific Corp. That firm was struck two weeks ago. Nelson also said his union was "real close" to an agreement with Scott Paper Co., which has con tinued to operate. The dispute over terms of a contract to replace one which ex pired June 1 has closed plants in Oregon, Washington. Northern California and Montana. The latest strikes came Wednes day against Santiam Lumber Co. at Lebanon and Sweet Home ana Menasha plywood Corp. at North Bend. A strike also was scheduled against Rainier Manufacturing Co at Rainier, but its employes are on their summer vacation until Aug. '12. The LSW indicated pick ets would be posted then. Outside the Douglas Fir belt, the IWA moved its negotiations with two producers from Lewiston to Albeni Falls, Idaho, today. Diamond Talks Today The IWA and Pollatch Forests, Inc., broke off talks in Lewiston Tuesday after each side rejected an offer from the other. Meetings were scheduled today between the union and Diamond National Corp. More talks are planned Friday at Superior, Mont Man Saves Lookout "Everything's all right up here.' But he did not Inllnw up the comment with his weather report. The KFPA dispatcher then alerted Wally Raker, state radio maintenance man who was work ing in the radio shack beneath the Hogback Lookout Tower, to check on Beck. Raker then walked up to the tower and found the guard on the floor. Beck has been a KFPA employe for the past seven years and until this year he had served in the Shake Butte Lookout, near Bly Lions Pose Bad Moment AI.BANY (UPH-A pair of cir cus lions, one of them said to be the second largest in captivity gave State Police a headache Wednesday when their portable cage flipped over on Interstate 5 near the Halsey interchange The cage, being lowed by truck from Sacramento to Portland, tipped over when a trailer hitch came loose. Neither of the lions was injured, and their trailer was set back on its wheels by a tow truck from Albany. The two passengers, Leo, weigh ing fiofl pounds and reputedly the second largest in captivity, and Nero, weighing 500 pounds, arc part of the Stan Kiamien Circus. Driver of the truck was Ray Grant, 23, of Pasco, Wash., who apparently wasn't taking any chances with the animals. "Are either of them hurt?" Dewsmen asked. "No, but they will be if they get out," he said, pointing to a near-by rifle. I'assing motorists, noting a warning sign leaning against the trailer, wcren t takine any chances, either. None stoped at the scene. n tM if ... ..J. i J i' 'iP T -i: j 1 V Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7509 Strike Messages On Test Ban Treaty WASHINGTON iUPH-"H will be a black day for all people if we do not take this first step for peace." ."It is another give-in to the Reds." Ihese conllictm? views on whether the United States should sign the nuclear test ban treaty with Russia were among more than 2,000 letters and telegrams that have poured into the White House on the issue. Both messag es came from California. The White House reported that messages to 'President Kennedy were running about 12 to 1 in fa vor of the test ban agreement. It gave reporters a look Wednesday at a random selection of the let ters and telegrams received since Kennedy's address to the nation Friday night. A telegram from Washington state told the President that "fa thers and mothers thank you" and one from Brooklyn said "anybody opposing the treaty should have. his head examined. A Demo cratic club in California tele graphed praise for the treaty and urged "more high level confer ences. It is our opinion that this pro posal is nothing more than a vic- Aide Checks Atomic Lock BONN i UPI i Secretary ol Delensc Robert S. McNamara Hew to the edge of the Iron Cur tain today to find out if the Amer ican lock on nuclear warheads. earmarked for West German lorces really is sale. With West German Delensc Minister Kai-uwe Von Hassel at his side, McNamara hopped to Hannover, then to Brunswick, and from there to inspect German units on the Communist border near Passau. llasscl's army units have U.S. rockets and missiles, but Ameri can Army forces keep the nuclear warheads in their custody. Mc Namara was checking the devices installed to insure the warheads remain under direct 'U.S. control. 5 Escape To Freedom WITTENBERG, Germany UPV An East German family of five (lashed to freedom in a motor boat, West German border police said today. A 50-year-old employe of the East German Navigation Office at Wittenberg placed his family in one of the boats he used on his job, gunned the engine and reached the West German bank of the Elbe River without being potted by Communist guards' Wednesday afternoon, police said When Communist border guards were not looking, he picked up his family and a skeleton supply of household goods end crossed the 100 yards that divided them Irom freedom, police said. Smaller Quakes Strike Battered Skopje Area SKOPJE, Yugoslavia (UPD - Three new earthquakes struck de vastated Skopje today, sending its battered residents fleeing into the streets in panic once again but causing no further damage or in juries. However, Yugoslav rescue cen ter olticials who announced no new casualties said they would speed up the evacuation of the city, wrecked by a catastrophic earthquake last Friday. They said there have been close to 200 tremors since Friday, but that most of them have been mi nor. Officials also said workers dug! out the bodies of three more vic tims Wednesday night, raising to 837 the total number of dead re covered. Estimates of what the final death toll will be ran be tween 1,500 and 2,000. But officials said they had "no further hope" of finding more sur vivors under Skopje's rubble. AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Fair with 100 pir ctnt tunshlnt for next few days. No rain. Having outlook good to excellent. Eight-Inch toil ttm ptratura M degrees. Pouring In tory for the cowardly pacifists," a Chicago couple wrote. "We feel that you arc naive to think that the American people should be expected to think that they can rely on the signature of the So viet Union." Another Chicagoan asked "how- many limes docs the West have to be sucked in by Russia before he finally realizes that any peaceful-seeming concession such as the test ban treaty is merely another chess move in Russia' game to win the world'.'" "If we are foolish enough to disarm, then communism has us bound and will take over," a Mon tana couple wrote. From Arizona came a telegram opposing the trea'.y, saying that Khrushchev should Iks mado to tear down the Berlin wall and re move Russian troops from Cuba and other countries. "A test ban without an absolute foolproof inspection is suicide," said a telegram from West Palm Beach. Fla. A Philadelphia woman wrote that the treaty "will stop future fallout, will lessen the arms race and might even lead to disarma ment." A letter from Madison. Wis. said it was "reassuring to know that our water and food will be less contaminated with stron tium." "You said what urgently needs to be said and you said it with power and authority," a letter writer in Nashville, Tenn., told Kennedy. "Even FDR could not have done better." A letter from Urbana, 111., said history may record the treaty as the most significant action of the Kennedy administration. But an Indiana critic said the treaty could only help Russia and that experience over the past 1 years should show that it was vorthless. Spread l,"' '-'" tt ' .afJta. i''' BRAND NEW These darling Darwinian delinquents with winning wiles will cut up and caper for eudieno who see the Polack Brothers Shrine Circus this week at the Klamath County Fairgrounds. Th.y have learned just about every trick in the book, trained by Buddy Watkins and his wife, Elia. Chris It star of the simian troupe. Among their stunts is a bareback riding act on easy-going Easter, a Shetland pony born on Easter Sunday fiv. years ago. Tickets are still available for both metine. and ee. ning shows, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2-3, at the Klamath Falls Auditorium, circus j headquarters. They may also be purchased at the gate. ; Officials indicated a complete death toll may never be known. They said: 'We feel it is impossible any body who has not yet been found could survive." The boom from dynamite squads demolishing tottering buildings echoed in the background as Yu goslav authorities voiced their grim observations. Mostly they went ahead with plans to rebuild Skopje on anoth- site in an effort to avoid fu Kennedy Test Ban WASHINGTON tUPD Presi dent Kennedy is expected to em phasize anew today his hope for overwhelming congressional and public support of the nuclear test ban to be signed in Moscow next week. The President scheduled a news conference for 4 p.m. EDT, which could serve as a forum for his new appeal. The conference was being televised and broadcast! live to the nation. Kennedy was believed ready to give some indication of U.S. reac tion to the attitude of French President Charles de Gaulle, who has declined to sign the pact and plans to continue his test pro gram. Clarification Unlikely It was considered unlikely, how ever, that the President would clarify in any great detail the question of whether the United States' was prepared to assist France with information and weapons if the French keep their experiments underground. Undersecretary of Stale W. Avercll Harriman said Wednes day the President could be ex pected In give some observation on the French altitude toward nuclear testing. The- President was understood to be wary of taking tuo definite a position pending further study. Harriman pumped more steam into the administration drive for' test ban approval by asserting lUut iUo ltnlinrl Cla, ,..ul that the United States would 'lose our leadership ot the Cook Gets Veep Post DENVER, Colo. (UPI) - Mult nomah County Commissioner M James Gleason Wednesday was elected president of the 11,000 member National Association of Counties. He was installed at a banquet in the Denver Hilton Hotel herel to end a four-day convention at tended by 2,200 county officials. At the same time, John A. An derson. Marion County engineer from Salem, was installed as head of Ihe afliliated National Associa tion of County Engineers. He was elected earlier. Another Oregon county official is in line for high national office. Eva Cook, Klamath falls, was elected second vice president of the National Association of County Treasurers and is in line for the presidency in l5. Baker County Judge Lloyd Rca was re elected NAC director and Multnomah County Engineer Paul Northritp was re-elected western: regional vice president of the cn qineer's association. ture disasters. But some surviv ors felt otherwise. Djordje Dimosvkl, a baker whose family escaped injury but lost almost everything they owned commented: "Even if I have to sweep streets and live in one room someplace else, I will never come back." He said he and his family cur rently were living in a tent set up in a park. Ho added: "I will do anything to escape from here. I will take any job." To Seek Support world" if the Senate failed to rat ify the ban on air, space and un derwater tests. Announced Delegation He spoke at a National Press Club lunch not long after the White House announced that a U man delegation, including four Democratic and two Republican senators, would accompany Rusk to Moscow Friday. The delegation includes Demo cratic Sens. J. W. Fulbright, Ark.: Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn.; John O. Pastore, R.f., and John Sparkman, Ala.; and Republicans Leverett Saltonstall, Mass., and George Aiken, Vt. Red Chief To Attend Ban Signing MOSCOW (UPD - Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev will at tend Monday's signing of the par tial nuclear test ban treaty and " take personal command of high level talks with the United States and Britain, it was learned to-: day. . . Informed sources said Khrush chev changed Ills vacation plans in order to take a personal hand ill the treaty signing ceremony and the discussions that will fol low with Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secre tary Lord Homo. Khr ushchev had been scheduled to leave for his Black Sea retreat ' today and relax for at least two weeks before making a journey to Yugoslavia on Aug. 20. It was officially announced, meanwhile, that Rusk has ac cepted Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's - invitation to .' remain here for three or four.' days after the ceremonial treaty ; signing Monday. Lord Home simi-' larly is expected to stay for the ; three-way talks. ; The foreign ministers will con-; tinue the private discussions in-; itiated by Khrushchev, Gromyko, ; Under-Secretary of State W. Aver-; ell Harriman and Britain s Sci ence Minister Lord Hailsham last month during the nuclear treaty negotiations. Subjects to be discussed were believed to include the Soviet-pro-; posed non aggression pact be-; tween NATO and the Warsaw bloc, the setting up of East-West ' control posts to guard against -surprise attacks, and the possible extension of the nuclear test ban treaty to take in a moratorium on underground tests.
