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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.)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.