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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:
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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. "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
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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."
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