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U.OF OR:. LIBRARY HSPAHER SBCHOJI COUP. OEN.RSF.ANU ugcu.'- KMiifiNE.oaea. IIC Offers Strike WW In The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS From Washington this morning: The big nuclear Dowers dan lo sign (at Moscow) the test ban treaty almost exactly on the 18th anniversary of the bomb blast at Hiroshima that signalled the age of nuclear weapons. The sign ing has been set for Monday, Aug. 6, the eve of the anniversa ry. It was at 9:15 a.m., Hiroshima time, on Aug. 6, 1945, that crew men of the U.S. bomber Enola Gay watched the parachute-borne bomb erupt into the fireball that killed the city of Hiroshima. Three days later, at 11:02 a.m., Aug. 9, in Nagasaki, the second atom bomb in history fell. The Hiroshima bomb was the start er's gun for the nuclear arms race. Fateful question: What would the present world be like if we had resisted the temptation to drop The Bomb on a Japan that was already facing defeat? Another question: WHAT IS COMMUNISM? Well, THIS is communism: Yesterday, at the East German town of Hohegeis, two persons, a man and a woman, presuma bly man and wife, reached the point where they could take it no longer. So they made a break for liberty across the plowed strip of land that lies to the east of the twin barbed wire fences that con stitute the boundary between Communist East Germany and the Free West. They were dressed like farm workers, and the man carried a scythe over his shoul der. When they were well out into the cleared strip, two communist East German border guards opened fire on them. The woman fell with a bullet in her leg. The man was hit but not killed. He threw away his scythe and man aged to scramble over the first fence. He was hit again, and dived into a clump of brush be tween the two lows of barbed wire. A watching tourist Hohegeis is a resort town, and hundreds of tourists were in the vicinity described to the correspondents this morning what happened. He said: "The man and the woman were running across the bare plowed strip. The woman was shot in the leg and fell. Then, suddenly, I saw a soldier in an East Ger man (communist) uniform come out of the bushes at the edge of the bare strip. He was a ser geant, I think. He stood behind the f Li st fence, took a dead aim at the wounded man and fired. "The poor refugee crumpled un der the fire of the guard's sub machine gun and fell. He was dead. Shortly afterward, about 25i East German soldiers and a com munist armored car rolled up. They led the limping, bleeding woman away. The blood-covered body of tile slain man was picked up and removed later." That's communism. A final question: (Continued on Page L t?ETS GO TOO Performers and employes of the Polack Brothers Shrin Circus and their children take along family pets while "on circuit." Out at the Klamath County Fairgrounds, where, the circus will play matinees and evening shows, Friday and Saturday, August 2-3, are poodles, police dogs, Siamese cats and juit plain cats, birds and monkeys tethered to mobile homes. Antwerp, born Maurice Theron, of the Cycling Therons, hat Pancho, left, from Peru, end Billy from Mexico. Both ere spider monkeys. The cycling family has been performing for three-quarters of e century. Wen I her Klamath Fall), Tuklaki and lakavltw: Mottly fair tonight and Saturday. Lowi tonight 3? at Tulalaka la 54 al Klamath Fallt and Laktview. Highs Saturday I2-II. Wtstarly windt S-IS m.p.h. High yeilarday II Low Ihit morning to High year ago la Low vaar agn it Prcip. eait 24 hours Sinco Jan. I 4.11 Sams period last year 1.11 T. , VH Bj mil L. m , r A BIT OF PLAY A BIT OF HAY The Besalou ele phants came fo town Thursday, warm and tired from the long trip from Redwood City, below San Francisco, so they indulged in a bit of informality no orders to fol low, no fancy dress, no bright lights or sawdust, just a mud puddle to play in and hay to chomp on. The six, getting in trim for today's two performances and the two on Saturday, are Jean, Betty, Milly, Kathy and Opal and the wee one, Kae, just B'j, named for onetime ballet beauty with the Polack Brothers Shrine Circus, now living in Chicago. The lady performers, trained by Peggy and Mack MacDonald, are Asiatics from Indochina. Elephants, like humans, sometimes get grumpy, get stubborn streaks JFK Ponders Non-Aggression Pact WASHINGTON (UPI Presi dent Kennedy, confident the Sen ate will approve the test ban treaty, believes a non-aggression pact with the Soviet bloc also might be worthwhile if it provid ed "greater security for Berlin.' Kennedy told a news conference Thursday he thought it "advisa ble" for the NATO powers to dis cuss Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev's proposal for an East-West non-aggression agree ment to see whether it would serve the interests of the West. He also said he was ready to give France nuclear weapons and know-how if President Charles dc Gaulle reversed his field and agreed to sign the limited test ban treaty and cooperate in "in tegration" of NATO forces possi bilities generally considered dim Kennedy said Red China, dedi cated to international war to spread communism, might well trigger World War III in the 1970s when Peking could become a nuclear power, unless some way - Prior Ten Cents 1! Pages ) t.-55;--. is found to defuse the situation.! The President said he was con- fident. "when the testimony is all I Fire Causing Bullets Being Distributed Here The .22 caliber tracer am munition being supplied to Klam ath Falls retailers from a Grants Pass distributor is a dangerous forest fire hazard and people who fire the cartridges are subject to a penalty of six months in jail and a $T00 fine, George Warden, su- Board Picks New Member TULELAKE Mrs. Edgar (Alii son I Osborne has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Tu lclake Joint Union High School following resignations of Jack Fenslcr and Lester Turnbaugh A second appointment to fill the other vacant seat will be made in the near future. The board will meet Aug. 6 for a budget hearing. A new high school administra tor to replace J. Ft Daughen baugh, whose contract was ter minated by a recent vote of school district electors, and full staff of teachers are expected to be announced soon. High school will open for the 1963-1964 term on Tuesday, Sept. 10. Korean Defector Finds Red Life HONG KONG 'UPH-A former American Army corporal who chose communism and lived for nine years in Red China said to day the experience disillusioned him. Lowell D. Skinner of Akron. Ohio, who was captured during the Korean War and refused re patriation after the armistice 10 years ago, left Red China Thurs day on his way back home at last. The 32-year-old Skinner, one of 21 American soldiers captured by the Reds and who elected to stay behind, described conditions in China now as improved over the chaotic situation that prevailed during the "great leap forward" that failed in 1959 and the with KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON'. and don't like to work, but usually they are "docile dar lings." They like hay, grain, green stuff, fruit, vegetable parings, and two or three of the six like coffee grounds. The MacDonalds have just celebrated their 16th wedding anniversary and have been on the road from January to December, much of the time since the day they were married. The "gurls" were not one whit embarrassed to be caught informally covered with mud, twigs, leaves and hay by the Herald and News photographer. It all comes off in the wash. Matinees both days start at 2:30, the evening performances at 8:15. Good seats are avail able at circus ticket headquarters in the Klamath Audi torium or at the gate at the fairgrounds. in." that the Senate would decide the treaty with Moscow outlawing air, space and underwater tests pervisor of the Klamath Forest Protective Association, cautioned sportsmen today. The ammunition, imported from France, is advertised as flame tracer bullets. A tracer projectile j traces its own course in the air with a trail of smoke or fire, so as to facilitate adjustment of the person's aim, Until this time, small caliber ammunition on the retail market has had no such in cendiary properties. Information that the cartridges were being sold in the Klamath Falls area was made known to the KFPA yesterday. W a r d e 1 1 said he acquired some of the ammunition and conducted tests which established that the shells would start (ires when discharged. Wardell set up two gas-filled cans in front of a high bank and fired at them with both conven tional ammunition and the new incendiary type. "You could shout holes in the can all day long with the con ventional cartridges and never start a fire," WardeH said. But that wasn't true of the oth er ammo. . Two fires were .started by the tracer shells which passed through one of the cans, Wardell said. (Continued on Page 4) drawal of Soviet help to Peking in 1960. But the life there is still tar from good, he said. "If you Want to change your work, you can't," he said. "I! ou want to study, you can't. II you want to travel, you can't. "In 1958 when the 'great leap' program Marled, the people thought they were going lo gain something. But then they got lircder and tircder." When the "great leap forward" of Communist Chinese leader Mao Tzc-tung started in 1958, "things got all mixed up." Skinner said, especially in the field of agricul tural production He said the Chinese at that time "didn't produce too much." Skinner said that at the height FRIDAY. A I' GIST 2, 1963 st I .q J . "provides protection for the sc curity interests of the United States" and would ratify it. He said the limited trealy pro vided "some hope of moving to ward a more peaceful world," but he warned that the future was cloudy and there was noth ing to warrant any relaxation of Western defense efforts or a re duction of the U. S. military budget. The United States, lie said, will continue testing nuclear weapons underground, which is permitted by the new treaty. Dormitory Bonds Sold PORTLAND (UPH The State Board of Higher Education today sold $9.5 million worth of bonds to nay for c o 1 1 e g e construction projects to two eastern firms bid ding as a joint venture. The purchasers were Halscy, Street & Co. and Continental Illi nois National Rank, both with offices in Chicago and New York The interest rate on the 30-year bonds will be 3.05942 per cent, called by board vice chancellor H A. Bork the lowest interest rate won for college building bonds in the last 10 years. There were seven other bids. The money will be used to "build dormitories at Southern Oregon College, Eastern Oregon College. Oregon Tech and Oregon College of Education; a health service building al the University of Ore gon. and a parking garage and addition to the College Center al Portland Slate College. of the "great leap" program he actually had a home steel fur nace set up in his backyard in Tsinan. "It didn't work." he said, re flecting the general opinion about the backyard steel production ex periment, which dated from the Peking Communist party's direc tives about organizing people's communes in 1958. He said that at the height of the "leap forward" program in Sep tember 1958 it was common for people in Ret) China to work 21 hours a day. But now the work day is back to eight hours, he said. Skinner said life inside Red China grew very difficult in 1959 60, with 1960 the worst year of Telephone TU 48111 No. 7510 Rail Settlement Hope Improving WASHINGTON UPH - All in formed source said today there are prospects for settlement of the railroad dispute without con gressional action. The source, w ho declined use of his name, said there were faint signs of improvement in the out look for an agreement in the bit ter tight over work rules. This was disputed by a spokes man for railroads who said there had been "no visible improve ments in the possibility of a set tlement without congressional ac tion." A statement issued by J. E. Wolfe, chief negotiator for the carriers, added: "It may be that these rumors are part of an at tempt to mislead the public and Congress and frustrate President Kennedy and his advisers in their proposal to end the dispute by submitting it to the ICC I Inter state Commerce Commission!." Any agreement on the dispute. which has gone to the brink of a nationwide rail strike, might be built around a two-year plan for a substantial reduction in fire men's jobs and creation of a labor-management study group to make recommendations for future handling of the issue. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz has been meeting with buth sides in an clfort to get collec tive bargaining moving again. He talked Thursday with Wolfe. Earlier this week H. L. Gilbert president of the firemen's union, said management had changed its position somewiiat in an ex change of messages. Wolfe mini mized the change, but conceded it had come about. The Senate Commerce Commit tee wound up testimony Thursday on President Kennedy's proposal to let the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) settle the con troversy. It is expected to act on Kennedy's plan by Aug. 15. The House Commerce Commit tee has not yet completed its hearings. Congressional leaders. Welfare Cut Move Begins SALEM (UPIl New efforts to eliminate ineligible persons from Oregon's welfare rolls were an nounced Thursday by State Wel fare Administrator Andrew F. Juras. Earlier it was announced in Washington, D.C., that 5.4 per cent of the persons on Oregon Aid to Dependent Children rolls had been found to be ineligible. The Oregon figure was identical to that of the national average found in a survey made last win ter by federal officials. The sur vey was made public Thursday. Juras declared the Oregon Wei fare Department would go beyond minimum federal requirements, in his efforts to cut ineligible recipi ents from the rolls. Federal requirements now spec ify a continuous review of eligi bility; redetermination of eligibil ity for all ADC families every six months and statc-by-state reviews of program administration. State investigators are being hired to probe suspected frauds and complicated property cases where eligibility is questioned by cither the regular caseworker or the siecial reviewers. Welfare workers will check in dustrial accident and unemploy ment compensation lists lo be sure wcllare recipients aren't get ting money from those sources. Not So Attractive hardship for Hie Chinese popula tion. That was the year the Russians withdrew, and a period which was further complicated by "droughts and floods, bad management, and lack of experience." "If we had lo live like ordi nary people, no one would have survived," he said. Foreigners were given belter rations than the Chinese, he said. He said that office workers with legs and arms swollen from mal nutrition were a common sight in those days. Skinner, who married a Chinese girl who remained behind when he left, said that in 1960 the Russians at one point demanded that the Chinese repay old debls main Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Gtftrlly ftlr ntit few dirt with only light tempera turt chtnqtt. Slight chine at afternoon thundtrthowtrft. Haying out look good. Eight inch toil ttmptntur W dtgrtat have agreed thai the Senate will act first on the railroad legisla tion. Under Kennedy's plan the four and one-half-year dispute would o to the ICC and any change in pay and other working conditions ordered by the ICC would be ef fective for two years. The ICC de cisions would be subject to court review. The carriers favor the bill. But the five railroad brotherhoods, representing about Ulj.OOO train crewmen, oppose it as "compul sory arbitration." Dedication Plans Listed For Project An overall view of the Klam ath Project Extension is being offered to interested persons pn- to the dedication of the new 10.000-acre area at 3 p.m. Fri day, Aug. 9. In announcing plans for the dedication of the extension, the Klamath Basin Improvement Dis trict reported that it is plan ning a West Coast charter flight al 10 a.m. on Aug. 9 tor inter ested persons wishing to get a better picture of the added area and its economic importance to the agricultural income of the Basin. The flight will take an hour. Dedication activities begin at 1 p.m. when Congressman Al UU man and Floyd Dominy. commis sioner of the U.S. . Bureau ofl Reclamation, arrive by air for the ceremonies. Following luncheon, those plan ning to attend the dedication cere mony will congregate at the Klamath Irrigation District head quarters on Uie Crystal Springs Hoad at 2:30 p.m. From there, the group will travel to the Stukcl pumping plant where Commissioner Domi ny will make the dedication speech at 3 p.m. Also in attend ance will be Robert Palfour, re gional director of the Bureau of i Reclamation from Sacramento, and Chris Wheeler, Oregon Stale engineer. A dinner is scheduled for Reamcs Country Club at B p.m. Friday at which Dominy will make a few remarks and Ullman will make the principal speech. The public is invited lo both the dedication ceremony and the dinner. Those planning lo attend the dinner are asked to phone reservations to John Stewart at TU 2-6661. Postmaster Bill Noted WASHINGTON (UPIl - Three Oregon Democrats Thursday in troduced legislation to take post master appointments out of poli tics. Reps. Edith Green, Robert B Duncan and Al Ullman called for postmasters lobe appointed through tlte civil service merit system rather than through po litical patronage. The Orcgonians said their leg islation would do away with "po litical influences" of the past and improve the morale of post office workers. ly Korean War debts, but also 'those ' fur the large industrial enterprises." He said Uie Russian withdraw al principally had affected the construction of textile and fertiliz er plants. "Some of these big enterprises had to stop after the Russians left," he said. Noting the cooling-off of Soviet Red Chinese relations. Skinner said that in 1957-58 there was no talk about Moscow Peking troubles. But just before all the Russian technical experts left Tsinan in I960, he said he noticed a re markable increase in the violence nf anti-Russian statements by the Chinese. By United Press International The Timber Operators Council, in a stunning step to end the Northwest lumber dispute, today recommended putting its latest wage offer to two lumber unions into effect without their approval. The council, which represents 196 firms in the Douglas Fir belt from Northern California to Alaska, recommended to its members that its offer of a 26 cent an hour pay increase over three years go into effect immediately. An estimated 30,000 em ployes would get a 12-cent pay increase retroactive to June 1, when the last con tracts with the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union (LSW) expired. The plan was attacked immedi ately by Harvcv Nelson. President of the lWA's Region 3. Nelson called it "another ex ample of bad faith bargaining by the Timber Operators Council." He said the union will meet it "with any action that is deemed appropriate," but would not elab orate. The unions rejected the 26-ccnt package offer at a meeting in Portland July 26 and Nelson said the TOC promised tlien to put its proposals in written form and sub mit them to the unions and to fed eral mediators. He said he is still waiting for his copy. Earl Hartley, executive secre tary of tlte Western Council, LSW, was not available for comment today. Registered letters notifying tile unions of the TOC p!an were sent to Hartley and Nelson Thursday night. Hie association said. "In making tins offer, we are fully cognizant of our legal re sponsibility of continuing to bar gain collectively," emphasized Karl F. Glos, executive vice pres ident of the TOC in Portland. "We feel strongly that the offer is fair and proper under the cir cumstances. We are determined to attempt to bring the negotiations to a conclusion as quickly as pos- iblc." The TOC said July 25 that the Razed City To Be Rebuilt SKOPJE, Yugoslavia (UPI I Tlie mayor of Skopje said today. Hie city will be rebuilt on the same site where an earthquake. destroyed most of its buildings and killed more than 2,000 per sons. Blagvje Popov said work will begin immediately to rebuild the lour largest city government structures. And in Munich, Ger many, Yugoslav Consul Slobodon Krstic, told a news conference that the present site of Skopje is too vital a traffic hub to be clocated. Earlier, officials had said the, city would be reconstructed at a different site away from a line of faults which have produced 220 tremors since the big earthquake occurred just before dawn on July 26. The quake destroyed 85 per cent of the city's buildings. Popov said the final death count will show that more than 2,000 persons died in the disaster. Al most half of the city's 200,000 resi dents have left it to find homes elsewhere. WATER FESTIVAL TROPHIES Pretty Karen Sloan displays tome of the trophies that will go fo winners In tha Klamath Water Festival, sponsored by the Easin Boaters, at the Moore Park Marina, Aug. 4. Tha young lady along with Carol Draw will present 'the trophies to winners in SK boat racing, ipead and slalom water skiing and other events. The slalom eliminations will begin at 8 a.m. sharp on Sunday. Everyone is Invited to attend the colorful festival and there will be no admission charge for spectators. See story on Page 4. 26-cent offer was the maximum under present lumber industry conditions and a steady increase in Canadian lumber sales in the United States. It called the unions' demands for 33'i cents "unrealistic and uneconomical." The unions got 33'i cents from Simpson Timber Co. in a settlement announced July 19. About 29,000 workers are idle in Oregon, Washington, northern Cal ifornia and Montana in a strike against some TOC members, in dependent firms, and two mem bers of the Big Six. The other four Big Six members closed in sympathy. No additional strikes were re ported Thursday or today. More Firing Rips Shaky Korea Truce ALONG THE TRUCE LINE, Korea (UPD ScaUered gunfire again broke out in the Demili tarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea early to day, but a U.S. 1st Cavalry Di vision officer indicated the shoot ing was insignificant. Nevertheless tension remained high along Uie 151-mile truce line where four Communists, three Americans and one South Korean were killed in skirmishes Monday and Tuesday. American and South Korean troops of the United Nations Com mand (UNO appeared ready tor any trouble, but the immediate danger of war seemed to nave faded. Lt. Col. William 0. Lynch, com-. mander of -Uie 1st Cavalry's 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, said the pre - dawn shooting was by American soldiers firing at pos sible infiltrators. Lynch heads the Army unit responsible for obser vation posts up front. No Increased Activities There has been no increase of major activities," he said. We had sporadic firing last night but most of our contacts are at night." 'Last night there also were some mine detonations," he said, "We feel we probably got quite a few (infiltrators) before they got through," the officer said. But he said there was no way lo check because night foot patrols have been ruled out, and the North Koreans can take their wounded back before helicopters can fly over the zone in daylight. "We are fighting a night war up here," Lynch commented. "If anyUiing moves we shoot." The only U.N. patrols at night are made In armored personnel carriers. Predicts Less Tension Lynch predicted Uiat in a few days "we'll be back in our regu lar business our 365 day-a-ycar job of patroling and policing the DMZ." "S
