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Newspaper Page TextCOISF G'-:.N. Ri . AN COCuUSH :s div. Weather Ktmm F lit, Tu(tlk tnd Lakcviiw Mostly fair tttroufl) WMlfwMay witK riabli ctoodinttv. Lews tonight 43 ictpt about J tn tht Lower Klamattt tam. HiflM WMniitfiY Jl to 1. MtflU ytittrdjy TT Low ttiit morning 13 Hi 9ft ytar 490 1 Low vr cjf )i Procip. last 34 hours M Sine Jan. 1 113 Samt period lait year l.jf Weather AGRICULTURAL FORICAST Gimrally good cMdlHOftf for th Mil ttvtril dart with a slight thrut of thow ar. Not much ttmpcrafura changt. Hav ing and fiald work outlook good. light Inch toil tomparalurt 01 dagroas. Prire Ten Cents 14 Pg KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY. AUGUST 17. 19W Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7561 Two - Week deal! s Fir IPsiir J . ; i v- ' ' : id I " , . , - . ' .. - t ' i, ' ' A ORDEAL ENDS David Fellin i$ carried from Red Cross tent to waiting helicopter for his ride to Hazleton State Hospital after being rescued from his 331 - foot -deep mine entrapment near Sheppton, Pa. Rescued along with Fellin was Henry Throne. UPI Telephoto In The- Day's lews . By FRANK JENKINS In Sheppton, Pennsylvania, this morning, two coal miners were rescued from a cold, dark cham ber more than 300 feet under Rround where they have been trapped for two weeks by a cave in that cut them off from the bright, beautiful world above them and apparently sentenced them to a horrible death. As they came out, they were jubilant. As they came up the shaft that had been drilled 309 feet through dirt, clay, rock and coal to reach them, one of them sang "I'll be comin' round the mountain." and the other danced a happy jig as he came out into the air and the sunshine. As this is written, there is joy throughout ALL OF AMERICA, tempered only by the grim fact that another miner trapped IB feet away from the lucky two is still unheard from. Interesting question: How much did it cost? That answer this morning is that nobody has the faintest idea. As of now, NOBODY CARES. Cost was never an object. Scientists sent costly radioac tive material to the rescue site. Tcxans shipped up huge drilling hits to cut through the rock and the coal to rush the shaft down to the trapped men. Much of the drilling equipment at the rescue site, its value esti mated as high as a quarter of a million dollars, was owned by a big tool company. No questions were asked as to who would pick up the tab. Countless hours of TIME were spent much of it overtime. How many hours'.' Nobody knows. No body stopped to add up the hours or to make a note of them. This morning a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Mines told an inquiring reporter that no matter what the cost may be the State of Pennsylvania is ready to pick up the tab. If the State of Pennsylvania picks up the tab. the taxpayers of Pennsylvania will have to pay lite bill, it's a good bet that they will pay it willingly for the mon ey was spent in a good caue. So much of the news these days is SO BAD. Kor example: The U.S. News fc World Re port, in its latest issue, says lhat by every measure America is on the brink of a major crisis in crime. It says the rise in crime far outstrips the popula tion increase. In the years from to 1W2. it points out, the U.S. population i up SIX per cent, whereas CRIME is UP 27 PER CEN T Whv? Weil, the U.S. News & World Report says, a BASIC CAUSE is loo much vion v in America about the RIGHTS OF CRIMINALS and loo little woirv about the RIGHTS OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS. And so on fi causes us to wonder if we are on the dnwn-hill side of our development as a nation. re we tettin; WORSE instead of BETTER'.' There are times when one won ders. But this trapped miner story from PnnsKaaia f,r the future. In the PINCHES. American are .till all rig.U. Ike Backs Treaty With Reservations W ASHINGTON lUPli - Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., said today he did not think former President Dwight D. Eisenhow er's call for a "reservation" would hurt chances for Senate ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty. Fulbright, chairman of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee. Chopped Up Tax Bill Put On Shelf WASHINGTON (UPI I - Presi. dent Kennedy's lax program, cut by an additional $130 million was put on the shelf today until the second week in September In a surprise setback for the edministration Monday, the House Wavs & Means Committee voted unanimously to junk complex section of the big tax measure imposing additional tax es on heirs of big estates. The action sliced an estimated $1;10 million in revenue from the bill and cut still further the rev enue erasing retorms sought by the President to balance lib eral rale reduction for individ ual taxpayers and businesses. Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D Ark., at the same time an nounced that no further meetings on the bill would be held until Sept. 10. This put off final committee ac tion on the priority lax issue until a week alter the Labor Day holi day. House floor debate is ex pected a week after that, on Sept. IK and 19. : V1 ',:'. ? i ' '.I , J ! aL . HARD TO GET FRYING PAN Mrs. Annie Russ, a visi tor from New Zealand, went to a lot of trouble to get this frying pan when she came all the way from San Fran cisco to Klamath Falls to purchase the pan to take back to her New Zealand home. Mrs. Russ spotted the grease less, non-sticking pan while passing through Klamath Falls and decided to buy it in San Francisco instead of purchasing it here and carting it with her to the big city. She was told that these frying pans weren't available in San Francisco. Mrs. Russ, who is returning to her home soon, wanted the pan enough to come right back to Klamath Falls to buy it. s - i, said there was "no difference in opinion" between assurances by the Kennedy administration and Eisenhower's proposal for guar antee that the United Stales had t he right to use nuclear weapons in time of war or aggression. "That right is clearly under stood by everyone" and has been reiterated by witnesses support ing the pact, Fulbright told a re porter. Fulbright's committee sched uled testimony today from a long list of witnesses, including Dr. George Kistiakowsky of Harvard University. White House science adviser under Eisenhower, and AFL-CTO president George Mea ny. Kistiakowsky and Meany gave their unqualified endorsement to the treaty and urged Senate rati fication. Kistiakowsky saw "nt need for any reservation" as sug gested by Eisenhower. But Adm. Arleigh A. Burke. former chief of naval operations in the Eisenhower administration, said he has grave misgivings whether the treaty will be a "ftcp towards peace or a step towards decreasing the security of the United States." Burke told (he Senate pre paredness subcommittee the Sen- ale should voice a reservation that underwater tests in seas ad joining Russia would be treaty i violations. Meany told the (oreien rela tions group that the AFL - CIO ui 2cs ratification of the pact, "despite all its limitations," he cfiuso "it is in the best interests of our country." Senate Democratic Ixiad e r Mike Mansfield said that he hoped the test ban hearings could be completed this week. He made the statement following President Kennedy's weekly brea k f a s t meeting with Democratic congres sional leaders. SHEPPTON. Pa. (UPI' - Two joyous coal miners, one singing and the other dancing a jig. were rescued early today from a cold, dark chamber more than 300 feet underground where tliev were trapped for two weeks. Henry Throne and David Fellin were in high spirits as rescue workers lilted them slowly through the 18-inch shaft drilled 209 feet through dirt; ciay. rock and coal. They were flown to a hospital by helicopter and were in "good" condition. Throne. 28. said he would go inlo tile mines again. Fellin, 58, said he was not scared through out his long ordeal. Fellin was singing "I'll be com ing around the mountain" during his slow ascent. Throne danced a little jig when he reached the surface and saw humans other: than Fellin for the first time since Aug. 13. At the hospital. Dr. Peter Saras, Throne's physician, said: 'Throne still feels in good con ation. He has some complaint about the bruises on his right hand and complained about a tin gling on the bottom of his feet, liich disappeared once he began walking around the room." Dr. Anthony Fedullo, Fellin's physician, said: "Fellin is feeling very good. Right now he's taking a tub bath. He is in a good humor, smiling, glad to be sale. He keeps men tioning 'At no time was I seared.' He has complained about a numbness in his toes. Tliere is some swelling, which is subsid ing." Throne and Fellin will be kept in the hospital at least one week. the doctors said. Shortly alter ihoir rescue. H Riecher Charmbury, state secre tary of mines, started efforts to reach Louis Bova, 42, a third miner trapped about 18 feet from Fellin and Throne by the same cave-in. Workers began drilling a 12'i Living Costs Jump Again WASHINGTON (UPD - Living costs soared to a new peak in July because of sharp price in creases (or pork and fresh vege tables, the Labor Department re ported today. The department s consumer price index hit a record high of 107.1, up five tenths of 1 per cent over the previous month. This means it took $10. 1 in July to buy the same goods and services that cost $10 in the base period 1937-59. The rise triggered cost-ol-living pay increases of from 1 to 3 cents an hour for 1.025.0O0 workers in the auto, aerospace, farm and construction equipment and truck ing industries. A Labor Department price ex pert said the July increase was the largest lor any month since last September. Arnold Chase, assistant conv missioner of labor statistics, said he expected prices lo be "rea sonably stable" during Ihe rest of 1963. He foresaw no major in creases. Pork prices jumed by more than 5 per cent last month as farmers sent fewer hogs to mar-1 ket. Rises also were reported in prices of apples, lettuce, toma toes, beef and veal. Soft drink prices climbed again reflecting a spiraling increase in sugar prices earlier this year Determined New Zealand Woman Travels Long Way To Prove Point If New Zealanders were knnwm for their stubbornness there would lie good reason for it and 77-year-old Mrs. Annie Russ of Pai hia. Auckland, New Zealand, could easily carry the burden of the reputation all by herself. "Blow mell," she faid. "I just had to show my grandsnn-in-iaw thai they made those fry pans with the element in the lid." And show him she will, bul il tiok a .TUn-mile trip from San Francisco to Klamath Falls lo do it. Mis Ituss spoiled the pan she wanted while passing through Klamath on her tilth trip to the United Slates since tetiruig from tne cattle and sheep ranch busi ness quite a few years ago. She didn't want to pack the pan ir. her bag all the way to thei (.olden Gale mi slie decided tocr. The country, it seems. 0r wait until slie got to the fnetrop-iales on a 220-volt electrical y s- !!;s to buy the modern device. inch hole about six feet east of a six-inch communications shall Grilled earlier. They plan to ex pand tile ho.e to 17'j inches in an attempt to rescue Bova. vhom Fellin believes is still a'ive. No response has been heard from Bova lor seven da vs. Bova's 32-ycar-old wife, Eva. was taken Monday night to Lo cust Mountain State Hospital at Shenandoah suflering Irom shock. She was resting I comfortably. Throne was the first to be res cued. He was wearing a football helmet and to cheering men and! women on the surlace he looked! ke a grimv astronaut who m'ght have been plucked Irom a' space capsule. i Fellin was brought to the stir- face minutes later. Fellin and Throne donned para- shute-type harnesses for the as- cut. It took 13 minutes to bring up Throne and only eight for Fellin. ending an operation that required more than a week of preparation. Saras said all laboratory tests undergone by Throne blood count, sugar content, urinalysis and electro-cardiagram are normal. Asked how Fellin and Throne appeared psychologically, he said. 'Perfect both men. Throne told me he would go down into the mines again. 'There's a lot of coal down there,' he said." Saras said, however, that nei ther of Ihe men had a good night's sleep and explained the; piobably were "jittery." Throne shouted on the way up: What a ride this is. I feel like banana." When he emerged from the ground at 2:07 a.m., rimy and covered with grease he did a joyous jig in the glare of the floodlights. He immediately was removed from the football-type helmet and coveralls in which he had been hauled up. He was placed on a stretcher, and. after a quick on- the-spot medical check, taken by a waiting Marine Helicopter to a room prepared at Hazleton Slate General Hospital, about 10 miles away. Throne s journey upward toon 15 minutes. At 2:42 a.m., alter an eight-minute ride, the plucky Fellin once again stepped onto Bova's Wife Hospitalized SHENANDOAH. Pa. (UPH -Mrs. Eva Bova, 32. whose hus band still is trapped in a coal mine cave-in at Sheppton, Pa.. was admitted to a hospital here Monday night in a state of shock. "It has been an awful shock," said Dr. James Monahan of Lo cust Mountain Stale Hospital. "The entire affair the others rescued may have had some cllect." Monahan said Mrs. Bova was ' resting comfortably" and that she would be kept under obser vation. While the frenzied rescue ef forts were being made to bring lo the surface two other miners who were trapped about 18 feet f'.om her husband. Mrs. Bova re peated over and over: "All I can do is sit and pray." Though Bova has not been heard Irom since last Tuesday David Fellin one of the miners rescued early today believes his colleague may be alive. However, the sophisticated and knowledgeable San Franciscan- told Mrs. Russ that such frying I jns weren't made. But Mrs Ross knew belter and told those "snippy" clerks so. So. hearty Mrs. Russ. mother of eight, and world traveler by nnu. thought nothing of trek k:n; hac k to Klamath Falls lo gel that pan. Her giandson-m-law, who oner ales a hardware store back in New Zealand, was another doubt ing Thomas who told lier such pans aien'l mad So. when Mrs. Muss lound thai they rertainly did. she decided she musl return with the proof instead ol just a story. The one drawback about the hole allair doesn't worry the d-termined New Zealand moth- Item while appliances here are the earth s surface "I'm coming okay, boys," he shouted as he neared the surface. "Lots ol room. This is the life." Through microphones attached to their helmets, both millers had been "talked" to the surlace by Gordon Smith, deputy state di rector of mines. Senators Appeal To Both Sides To Head Off Pending Rail Strike ,lcI..v, ,,. L ''" ivniociaiic ijCduer .wile .vians- fi.u .,iuj .-j unions toda., to kcc0 natio.s railroads oiieratine until Concress can deal with the dispute. DISCUSS PROCEEDINGS wf'uWoli Iff -r ing proceedings of the National Legislative Conference which they were attending in Honolulu, Hawaii. Left to right, George Flitcraft, Klamath Falls; Berlcelay Kent, center, and W. O. Kelsay, Roseburg, at right. The conference drew representative! from most of the 50 states. UPI Telephoto South Viet Mam Postpones National Assembly Election SAIGON. South Vict Nam (UPI I South Vietnamese Pres ident Ngo Dinh Diem, current ly embroiled in a crisis with the country's Buddhists, today post poned National Assembly elections until further notice. A brief statement released by the government -controlled Viet Nam press agency announced Lit em s decision, mil gave no mi- thcr details. It offered no expla nation for the' postponement. The elections had been sched uled for next Saturday. The press agency said the pres ident of the republic signed the order this morning, rhc order read : ". . .Application of law 13-63 ol lune 17. 1!K3, setting the date for the elections to the third Na tional Assembly on Aug. 31, 19K3 is postponed throughout the na tional territory of Viet Nam, from the dav of the publication of this 'order and until furtner notice. made to run olf a lltl volt sys tem. Mrs. Russ said she'll have an electrician friend ol hers revamp her household system to accom niodate the Irving pan's wiring Commenting on the United Stales. Mrs. Russ said she doesn't like Ihe big cities, slie just comes to sec the countryside and the grandiose scenery of the Rockies and Grand Canyon. She also has traveled through Europe, Scandinavia and Canada and crossed the equator II times, an even dozen when she return.' home this month. Mrs, Russ was asked what she does besides traveling now that she's retired. "Oh, I took up fish inc a few years ago and I spend a lot of time at it now. she said When asked what kind of fish she likes to angle lor, she said, "Blow tne, I like (o grab any. thing that likes to hang on." "Just like the chutes a Coney Island." the weary Smith said witli satisfaction as Fellin ap caied. A second helicopter w hisked Fellin to the hospital. Both men were bathed and started tests which are expected to lake about 48 hours. A hospital oflk'i.,1 gave The Montana Democrat's ap peal came as both sides an nounced preparations for a na tionwide strike scheduled for 12:01 a.m. Thursday. The carriers showed no imme f tJL Kris - w sv x Oreaon Stats ReDreiantativas are shown here discuss The disclosure lhat Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau had been arrested threatened to trigger more anti-govemment demonstra tions by militant students angered by the crackdown on the coun tty's Buddhists. Reliable sources said Mau, who shaved his head in protest against the government's repression of Buddhisls, was arrested Monday Yashington Awaits Invasion' WASHINGTON 'UPD - An air of watchful waiting settled like Potomac River fog today over the nation's capital the target of an expected 100,000 or more civil rights marchers Wednesday. Oflicials and ordinary citizens of Ihe District of Columbia, wise in tiic ways of inaugural parades and heroes' homecomings, went about their last-minute prepara tions for the mammoth rally in businesslike, almost blase. manner. Police stcd "no parking' signs in a KKl-square-block area in tiie heart of the city, including some of the capital's most fa mous landmarks. Ihe parking ban. scheduled to begin at one minute past midnight tonight, loomed as Ihe major problem lor the thousands ol government workers who stream into Wash ington each weekday. Huge first aid tents blossomed in the parks surrounding the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, the rallying (mints for the marchers, whose leaders began arriving here Mon day. A. Philip Randolph, the elder statesman of the Negro civil rights movement and "fnlher" of I he inarch, said Monday "no lorce under the sun can block or stem this civil rights revolution now under way." a preliminary report that both were in good condition. In a room nearby were Mrs. Fellin and Mrs. Throne, waiting to rejoin with their husbands. An order from Throno for a "cheese burger with the works" was quickly filled. The lonely mine site, which two diate sign of budging from their plan to put into effect at that hour new work rules w hich would idle about 700.000 rail workers, including both Utose on strike and those affected by the walkout. as he was about to leave for a pilgrimage to India. Mau submitted his resignation last week, but President Ngo Dinh Diem refused to accept it. On Saturday, Mau appeared at a student protest rally. The foreign minister has be come a hero to the students, and his arrest was expected to cause further anger among the youth who have risen against Diem's government. Mau's arrest became known as the chances of the Diem regime weathering the. religious-political risis appeared lo improve with I lie apparent backing of the ountry's supreme Buddhist lead- r. Thick Tinh Khiet. Railroads Post Rules, Prepare For Walkout CHICAGO i UPI i Notices of sweeping work rules changes were posted in rail terminals and shops across the country today lor the third time this summer. The nation's major railroads braced lor a threatened strike by five operating unions, while Con gress woikcd on legislation lo postpone a crippling showdown once again. Both Hie rules changes and the walkout were scheduled to start at 12:01 a m. Thursday. Many key lines began selling up machinery lo handle stranded passengers, perishable produce. livestock and freight in the event of a strike. The railroads prepared to issue embargoes on freight, probably on perishable goods fust Most lines said passenger trains would continue to their destinations. Freight trains, how ever, might continue only to the nearest terminal, generally a di vision or crew change point, A Pennsylvania Railroad spokesman said his line's policy would be "to get both passengers and freight trains to the nearest' weeks ago contained a few small shacks, had undergone a trans formation since the cave-in. Now two television towers loomed over the area, a helicopter field had been bulldozed, and more than 800 onlookers stood behind police lines to watch the flood lighted rescue operation. Shortly before Mansfield made appeal, the major railroads announced an embargo on all freight effective Wednesday mid night. But they promised to try to get to their destinations any travelers on trains when the strike deadline rolls around. For their part, the five rail brotherhoods involved in the four- year-old dispute said that instruc tions will be given tonight to about 150 union officials who will act as strike captains in the event of a walkout. Prepare For Strike They wili be assigned to every major rail terminal to coordi nate strike activities if there is shutdown, a spokesman said. In New York, a union spokes man said Long Island Railroad LIRR) workers might jump the gun going on strike before Wednesday morning's rush hour. The spokesman, Harold Pryor, advised thousands of Long Is land commuters "to take the day off" Wednesday. He said the LIRR's 1,600 trainmen have been summoned to an 11 a.m., EDT strike meeting Wednesday and the session would seriously af fect the line s service. The Long Island is the nation's largest commuter railroad. Mansfield said he was "hope ful, but doubtful" that the Sen ate could complete action tonight on a bill that would put the dis pute in the hands of a seven- member board to arbitrate major issue in the dispute. But he said the possibility of the carriers and rail brother hoods was clear. He then declared: "Pending completion of action by the Senate and Congress, I would expect that the carriers will not put into effect the chang es in work rules which are sched uled for 12:01 a.m. Thursday and which will precipitate a strike. The Senate and the Congress will legislate as fairly and as promptly as possible. But the Senate wilf not legislate under pressure. Dlrksen Backs Appeal Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirkscn, III., promptly declared that he hoped the postponement 'admonition of the majority lead er will be taken to heart." A railroad spokesman said the embargo actior, mean the carri ers will not accept freight for loading, transporting, interchange of reconfinement after Wednes day milnight. Although the railroads are sub ject to the jurisdiction of the In terstate Commerce Commission, the spokesman said they did not require government approval for tile action. terminal" rather than to their In tended destination. A spokesman for the Milwau kee Road said clforts would be made to get livestock to termi nals w ith pens, w here the animals could be fed and watered. Per ishables not carried to their des tination probably would be sold wherever they were stranded, he said. Both the Illinois Central and the Baltimore and Ohio said pas senger trains would proceed to their destinations in the evtnt of a strike. The Chicago and North Western said its passengers and freight trains would be stopped at the nearest terminal. Many railroad's notified non- operating personnel they would be laid off if operating crews walked out. Among those were the New York Central, Illinois Central, Rock Island, Milwaukee Road, North Western, New Haven, Boston and Maine, and Norfolk and Western. Tito Rock Island said it would shut down completely In the event of a strike.