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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.