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TV 15 ? "VJ.OC vi:vi'.ui- g.W.am: iwcimssrs oh. Supporters Hail Civil Rights Rally WASHINGTON lUPD - The greatest civil rights march U.S. history, hailed as a huge success oy its backers, gave new impetus today to the American Negro's centuries-old struggle for racial equality. A vast throng, estimated by Police Chief Robert V. Murray to have numbered more than 20o 000 at its peak, converged on the capital Wednesday (or the rally which resembled more a revi valist camp meeting than a mili tant civil rights demonstration.' At the end of a long and weary day, with words of praise from President Kennedy and Washing ton officials, they streamed out of the city by bus, train, plane In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Yesterday was quite a day in our history. Our nation had braced itself for trouble in Washington, w h e r e a throng of more than 200.000 white and colored Americans had assembled to call upon the con gress to end all manner of ra cial discrimination. But trouble didn't come. Why not? John Heywood. who lived and wrote back in the 16th century, may have given us the answer when he wrote in his Proverbes: "OF A GOOD BEGINNING COMETH A GOOD END." TIip mod heuinnins? It was provided by a Little marcners were wime; oiner esu ni I , i mates by newsmen and other The Little Old Lady? She is Mrs. Acquila Baleman. Colored. Seventy-four years old. And crippled. She limped on her bad leg to the Lincoln Memorial. There, standing before the gigan tic statue of Abraham Lincoln, chiseled by Daniel Chester French some four decades ago, she bowed her head in reverence and asked, this morning's dis patches tell us, a small favor of the Lord. She prayed: "Oh Lord, be with us today. and keep us in the hollow of your hand. May we love each otber. May we GET TOGETHER. I .pray that nobody will do any thing PERSONAL BAD to any. body else in Washington today.' It was a good beginning for a day that might have been fan tastically tragic. If Booker T. Washington was sitting somewhere on a cloud and listening, he must have mur mured reverently to himself and whispered: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." Who was Booker T. Washing ton? He was born a slave. At the age of 16, he walked 500 miles from his home to Hampton Insti lute, where he worked his way through and graduated in 1875. Afterward, he taught at Hamp ton Institute. He showed such ability that in 1881 he was chos en to organize a similar school lor Negroes at Tuskegee, Ala. hama. He opened his school in an old church with only 30 pupils, but in time the school grew into the famous Tuskegee Normal and In, dustrial Institute. He grasped the fundamental fact that EDUCATION was the way out for the members of his race. It is STILL the way out Fair Opens Tomorrow SALEM (UPI 'Sunny skieand warm weather were forecast for the opening Friday of the 98th Oregon Stale fair, and preoic tions are that more than 300.000 persons will attend the event be fore it closes Sept. 7. The gates will open at 10 a m At noon. Gov. Mark Hatfield will participate in formal opening ceremonies, and dedication of the new floral building. Opening day also is kiddies day. with all under 16 admitted free to (lie grounds, and reduced gay way prices in effect for the young er set. Children 12 and under get free admission daily. Horse racing will he held daily except Sept. I. The rodeo-horse show will be stated at 7:30 p.m. daily through Sept. 5. and on Sept. 6 and 7 the 4-H horse show will be featured. Judging of entries and exhibits beaan last week, and is now near inc a climax. The lairgrounds hae been buz zing 'with activity all through the week. and auto in the same disciplined manner that prevailed throughout the "march for jobs and free dom." The President, who met with the 10 march leaders for more than an hour, declared that the march had advanced the cause of the nation's 20 million Negroes and of all mankind. He said he could not help but be impressed with the "deep fer vor and the quiet dignity" of the gathering. He pledged to push for new civil rights legislation. and said the march would "in evitably lead to an outbreak at little Washingtons all over the country." "I shall propose a civil rights march through the South that will go straight into the Black Belli of Alabama and Mississippi this! year and in 14. We must pro vide 'little Washingtons' every where so that the Negro in the cotton field who can't get to Washington can have a chance to express himself." he said. Kloyd McKissick, newly elecled chairman of the board of the Congress For Racial Equal ity (CORE i, described the march as "the end of the Negro protest and the beginning of the Ameri can protest." To 74-year-old Negro labor lead er A. Philip Randolph, tired and drawn from the weeks of plan ning for the march, it was "the greatest demonstration for free dom. Further plans will include possible continuous "counter-filibuster" demonstra tions in the capital should a southern talkathon threaten Pres ident Kennedy's civil rights leg islation when it comes up for con gressional action later this year. Chief Murray estimated that about 10 per cent of the observers ranged as high as 30 per cent. Josephine Baker, the fiO-year-l old Negro expatriate who flew here from Paris, told the demon strators they were "together ai salt and pepper just as you should be. You are a united peo ple at last." New School Wednesday More than 10,000 Klamath County youngsters will shoulder their books and troop back to school Wednesday for another year of education. The biggest changes in the rou tine will be seen at Klamath Un ion High School, where a press of students has forced the adoption of split shift this year. The shift will start at 7 o'clock in the morn ing and end 10 hours and 15 min utes later at 5:15 p.m. The day is cut into 10 periods. The school year at Klamath Un ion gets under way Friday after noon at 1 o'clock with an orienta tion program for freshmen and other new students. School officials are expecting an enrollment of about 2.150 at KUHS this year. The biggest jump will come with the replacement of last year's senior class of 368 with this year's freshman class of about; 600. City elementary schools will handle about 2,500 students this! year and more than 6.000 students are expected at county schools. County school buses will run on the same schedules as last spring (See KUHS bus routes on Page l-C.) U ' I'll ifj J : J j "1 o' fWW1! rnz i-J I mm , v 1 IfiidiKlff'L . rTr'f TTl 1 rfn - , trFt JIM II P I ? :"tmdl S8egSEK!P I 11 I ' " llliip I I iff M il CASTLE AND MOAT The Klamath Falls Post Office today stands at castle surrounded by a moat. The moat is composed of two deep excavations on each tide of the building, duq in preparation for the extensive remodeling work on the post office. Post office Weal her Klimith Fills, Tulelakt ind Uktvuw: Fur through Friday. Lows fenighl V is 4J. Warm again Friday, highs to 17. Genarally light winds. High yesterday 11 Low this morning 41 Hlqh yaar aqo 71 Low yaar ago SI Prtclp. last 24 hours .00 Smct Jan. 1 4.13 Sama panod IjiI year i.jy UTAH(. M vTfc2i 0OUIOFMEN ' "I j $AHE BEHIND WORKERS TRAPPED Newsmap shows position of men trapped in potash mine, 2,713 feet below the surface near Moab, Utah. Two men have been rescued, eight are known dead and 15 mote are unaccounted for. UP1 Telephoto Trapped Miner's Claim Rebuked By Inspector SHEPPTO.V. Pa. H'PIi-A state mining official said today in his opinion David Fellin helped get himself into the predicament of being entombed for 15 days by a mine cave-in. State deputy' mines chief Gor don Smith made the statement in answer to a charge by Fellin Wednesday that he should have been rescued in five days. "The miners in this operation were removing pillars of coal. Smith said. "Fellin showed he doesn't know'all there is to know about mining by geUing himself in this predicament." Smith said the miner's were not digging deeply for coal, but were taking out coal pillars left all these years" to support the mine. Smith made the statement at the mine site where rescuers were drilling to reach Louis Bova, a third miner still trapped more than 300 feet underground. There is little hope for Bova's; survival. Fellin, a co-owner of the mine who was rescued early Tuesday along with Henry Throne, said Wednesday that he "should have been out by the fifth day." He said rescuers should have dug through the crumbled mine shaft, instead of drilling an escape hole from the surface. It doesn't even deserve com ment," Smith said of Fellin's re mark. Smith is a mining engineer who worked in the mines in this area during the depression. He said he did not know how Fellin expected to make a living from the mine, which had been worked on and off since 1950 after having been closed since 1929. H. Beecher Charmbury, stale mines chief, said Fellin's remark hurt the morale of the rescuers! now digging a shaft to reach Bova. "It was bad for the morale of the men when Fellin made his statement that he should have been rescued on the fifth day," Charmbury said. "The number of volunteers btbn rz ; z Pni'e Ten Cents 26 Pages dropped off sharply. We still have enough to do the work, but the number of men on standby basis has fallen oil. Charmbury said Fellin was not iamiliar with the "conditions of the slope or he wouldn't have said that. He couldn't be he hasn't seen it." Charmbury said a volunteer probably would descend the Bova shaft, but that it would not occur until 6 p.m. EDT Friday "at the earliest." He said water was dis covered at the bottom o the halt, and called it "a brand new hazard which makes it tougher." Workers today were widening Ihe 12V4-inch wide shaft to 30 inches to a depth of 35 or 40 feet. iney planned to widen tlie re mainder of the shaft to 22 inches, according to Smith. He said they were proceeding carefully because "this side of the mine is more dangerous than the other." Bova was separated from Fellin and Throne by about IB I feet of debris and rock. Diem Eases Police Rule SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPH South Vict Nam's official press agency said today that President Ngo Dinh Diem has promised to remove police guards from Bud dhist pagodas and free imprisoned monks and nuns who will obey the newly installed Buddhist lead ers. The agency said Diem, whose government raided the pagodasi last week, imprisoning thousands of Buddhist leaders, will place the' pagodas in charge of the monks now in command. It said the president made these promises Tuesday to a delegation of monks headed by Thich Thien Hoa, who was placed in charge of Buddhist affairs last weekend af ter the arrests. personnel will move out of the building about Oct. I for IS months while the wor V it completed by the Work Saver Body Company of Seattle. At left, two men armed with jackhammen pound eway af the pott office foundation. Center photo thowi hole already com. Prevents KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Rescuers MOAB, Utah (UPI - Rescue workers pumped oxygen inlo an explosion-charred potash mine to day in hope that 15 men who were trapped Tuesday behind a deadly barrier of carbon monox ide were still alive. The operation was aimed at providing life-giving oxygen for the 15 men if they were still alive and at making it possible for rescue crews to work 3,000 feet underground. Twenty-five men were originally caught by the explosion that jar red the earth's surface Tuesday afternoon in the remote badlands area of southeastern Utah. Two men were rescued from the mine. But eight other men w ere known to be dead. The body of one, too mutilated for immedi ate identification, was brought to the surface early today. That left 15 men unaccounted for among the 25 who were in the mine when the explosion oc curred. At least five were known to have been alive at mid - day Wednesday, but rescuers could not reach them because of the deadlv carbon monoxide caused by the explosion. State Mine Inspector Steve Hal- sis said the major effort of res cuers today was to pump oxygen deep into the mine and drive the carbon monoxide out so rescue teams can go in. This, he said, may take from 12 to 24 hours. Hatsis said the mine's regular ventilation system had been re paired as much as possible and rescuers were pumping the oxy gen through it on the assumption that it was reaching the critical areas where men were believed to be trapped. Ship Finds Jet Debris MIAMI i UPI i The freighter S. S. Azalea City radioed today that it had located debris believed to be from two jet tank ers missing since Wednesday with 11 Air Force men aboard. Officials at Homestead Air Force Base near here said the freighter found the debris about 300 miles from where the two KC135 tanker planes were last contacted by radio at noon Wednesday. There was ho mention of the crew in the terse message from the freighter. "The Azalea Cily is taking the debris aboard and will take it to1 Ihe nearest base for examination We can give no further details until the debris is identified," an Air Force spokesman said. Cleanest Rocks In California TAHOE VALLEY. Calif. (UPD John Peter Connolly, 32, of Garden Grove, Calif., kept busy Wednesday scrub bing rocks along a four-mile stretch of Highway 89. Connolly had thought it would be fun lo paint his fam ily's names on the roadside rocks. Local authorities or dered him to remove the paint. THl'RSDAY. AUGUST 29, 13 Pump Oxygen Into Mine BODY REMOVED Miners and rescue workers carry the first of two bodies recov ered from an explosion in a potash mine near Moab. Eight other bodies have been spotted in the mine. Fifteen still are missinq and are believed to be trapped 2,713 feet below the surface. Rescue operations ere underway. UPI Telephoto School Boundary Decision Explained By Commission After Wednesday's decision from the Klamath County Court lo propose the reorganization of the county into two unified school districts with South Sixth and Wiard streets as the basic bomv dary iinesr'Frank Gaming, court commissioner, said the court acted from the standpoint that a decision was to be made between two plans, the KUHS boundary plan and the Wiard Street plan The Wiard Street plan was picked, Ganong said, because 11 was a well thought out plan with the most answers compared to Ihe relatively new KUHS boun dary plan which had not been discussed in detail by the peo ple involved in reorganization over the past six months. The Wiard Street plan (dividing the suburbs) was originally es poused by Buz Wagner, during the Klamath County Citizens Com mittee meetings a few months ago. The boundary of this plan is described as a line starting at the point on South Sixth Street where the boundary of District No. 1 and the County Unit District meet. thence eastward in the center ol South Sixth Street to the intcrsce tion of Wiard with South Sixth and thence northward in the cen tor of Wiard Street to the inter section of the present boundary of School District No. 1, thence east ward to the present boundary of the Klamath Union High School District. All territory south and east of this boundary shall go tn the County Unit District for high school purposes and all territory north and west of this boundary, and included in the County Unit for elementary school purposes only, shall become a part of School District No. 1. The plan was picked by the pleted !l Irightl miiroaa-Strike Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7563 county school hoard as the board's second choice when each school board was asked to sub mit maps showing their prefer- Over 500 May Die On Highways By United Press International The National Safety Council has estimated that as many as 520 per-; sons may die and 21.000 suffer injuries in Labor Day weekend traffic. ' Last year's Labor Day weekend claimed 501 lives in traffic acci dents, a record for the 78-hour period. The council estimated Wednes day the total number of traffic deaths during the three-day holi day would range between 430 and 520. From 17,000 to 21,000, it said, would be injured during the holi day, which begins at 6 p.m. (local time I Thursday and ends at midnight Monday. Howard Pyle, former Arizona governor and council president, said Labor Day this year follows two summer holidays that set rec ords for traffic deaths, Memorial Day and Independence Day. "On these two long weekends alone only eight days more than 1,000 Americans were killed on our highways. All of us can and must exercise greater cau tion if we are to make sure this frightening performance is not repeated over Labor Day," he said. on the southeastern tide of the workt on the northwest tide. Weather Agricultural Fortcatl Conlinuad warm and dry tha ntxt law days with haying and lield work condi tions good to excellent. Slight throat ot liolatad thunderstorms ovar naarby mown tains, otherwise no praclpitatlon ax pact- ad. Eight-inch toil tomparalur J da- grata. FIRS DANGER High. ences lor school district reor ganization. On Aug. the KUHS Board of Directors and tha diraelo of lh county school district agreed that the KUHS boundary division plan would be the first choice ot both boards. ... , . . f Members of the city elemen tary board dissented from this and chose a South Sixth and Gary Street division as first choice and indicated that there would be some room for abitra- tion with the county board on 'their second choice plan, the Wiard Street division. The elementary board rejected the KUHS boundary plan because they feared the possibility of the repeal of the rural school law and the resulting tax inequities to their elementary district con stituents. Ganong further stated that the court's decision was not the ulti mate decision. There will be a vote on the plan at a later date. "The court is not undertaking to decide what is best for the schools," Ganong said. There will be a wealth of op portunity for the people to be heard with several public hear ings slated. The plan now will be supported with a new set of surveys and the school boards will be asked to submit all tlie details per taining to use of buildings, divi sion of assets, numbers of stu dents in the districts and other specifics relating to tlie imple mentation of the Wiard Street plan. School superintendents C I i f t Robinson, county, and Ray Hun, sakcr, city, and school board members indicated their willing (Continued on Page 4-A) building, while a power thov- New Law Orders Arbitration WASHINGTON (UPI) - Last- minute action by Congress and President Kennedy kepi the na tion's railroads operating today and prevented a strike over the bitter work rules dispute. The House overwhelminglv an- proved and Kennedy signed into law Wednesday night legislation providing for binding arbitration on the two key issues firemen's jobs and composition of train crews. The legislation removed the threat of a raUroad strike for at least six months. After that pe nce, n wouio e possible for a walkout to take place over other issues such as pay schedules and job jurisdiction. It was the first time in memory that Congress had or dered arbitration in a peacetime labor dispute. The railroads hailed the action, but tlie rail un ions termed it a "regrettable and backward step" that could affect labor-management relations. The President, who signed the bill 90 minutes after the House approved the Senate-passed measure, said it reaffirmed "the essential priority of tlie public in terest over any narrower inter est." Kennedy said that free collec tive bargaining was preserved. The railroads had threatened to put into effect at 12:01 a.m. to day new work rules that would eliminate 37,000 firemen's jobs. The unions said they would strike if the rules were imposed. When the House completed con gressional action with the strike only hours away, the railroads promptly pulled down their notices of the rules changes and the unions cancelled their strike ord ers. The new law authorizes crea tion of a seven-man arbitration board, made up of two members Irom each side and u,ree Pub,ic memoers, u rule on me lire- men's and train crew issues with in 90 days. Strikes or lockouts are prohibi ted dpring the two-year life o ' the panel's decisions. Pay schedules, job jurisdiction and other secondary issues would be Jeft lo collective bargaining, with a strike banned for 180 days. Both sides indicated after pas sage of the bill that they were ready to start talks immediately on these issues. The work rules dispute has been simmering for four years but came to a boil earlier this year when the Supreme Court up held the railroads' right to impose the new rules and eliminate the jobs. Attempts by the Labor Depart ment to mediate the dispute fell through and Ihe administration asked Congress to avert a nation wide strike by legislation. Committee Approves (Test Treaty WASHINGTON (UPD-The Sen- ate Foreign Relations Committee today approved the limited nu clear test ban treaty by a vote of 16 to 1. Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., was the lone dissenter. The committee voted to send the pact barring all but under ground nuclear tests to the Son ata floor for consideration start ing Sept. 9. The committee mem bers agreed that their written re port would contain "understand ings and interpretations regard ing continued U.S. test prepared ness. Chairman J. William Fulbrlght, D-Ark., said tlie committee mem bers made the "usual" reserva tion that they would be free to vote for or against the treaty on the floor, regardless of their vote in committee. No formal reservations to tlie treaty were proposed in commit tee but three procedural motions were offered and rejected. KUHS BUSES Individual mans of the eight separate bus routes scheduled thh year for KUIIS students and an explanatory slory are carried In today'! issue on page 1C. The maps show the route of each bus and the story lists the starting times for each bus run. Buses will run Friday In pick up freshmen and new stu dents for the orientation program.
