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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.
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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
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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.