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Wen I her Kltmitfi Fall. TultUkt nd Uktviiw Vinabt cloudint And warmtr with HtmooA or ivcfimg thundtrshewin threuah Saturday. Loi tonight 45 la it. tiigh Saturday ? t , High vtkttrday n Lew this morning jj High ytar ago T4 Low year ago 45 rrcip. laii u hours trie Herald att&IUr Sinct Jan. Samt ptnod Usl ytlr I j, Price Ten Cents 14 Paget KLAMATH FALLS, ORF.GON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1963 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7564 Weather Agricultural Porocatt UntiHttd wtithor conditions with threat ol thowars ntxt two days makt haying and field werlc wffalhar only tair. A raturn to warmtr and driar condi lion ara tMPtcttd tht first of in wtak. Eighl-inch toil Itmporaluro, 44 dagrtts. FIRI DANGER High. V , "ti h If. ';' .tUhmmmaJt jUdiAMmCaiSiSm mmiM-tJLitm-iill, iWSuilm-mt Investigation Underway In Blast That Claimed 18 MOAB. Utah (UPU - The grimi task of identifying bodies of vic tims of a potash mine explosion began today in a truck repair shop converted into a temporary morgue. At the same time, federal and state agencies began a lull-scale investigation .of the blast, which killed 18 of 25 construction work ers nearly 3,000 feet below the earth s surface. The makeshift morgue was set INSTITUTE SPEAKER Dr. R. N. Lowe, professor at the School of Psychological Serv ices at the University of Oregon, addressed city and county teachers at the annual Klamath County Institute and Educational Conference. Dr. Lowe, one of three fea tured speakers, discussed the way teachers contribute to juvenile delinquency. Oth er speakers were Dr. Don P. Pence, president of Central Oregon College, and Dr. Winston D. Purvine, president of Oregon Technical Institute. Dr. Purvine's topic was "The Next Decade At OTI." Seated on the speakers' platform are, from left, Dale Hallack, KU band director; Dr. Cliff Robinson, county school superintendent, and Ray Hunsaker, city school superintendent. Bova's Body Said Spotted By Camera la The- Day's flews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the begiiv ning of the long Labor Day week-end is only a few hours off, and the National Safety Council has just estimated that before it ends somewhere between 430 and 520 "citizens of the world's most motorized civilization (meaning the United States of America will have died in traflic acci dents. Sounds grim, doesn't it'.' But wait a minute. Using the larger figure ( 5201 , what it means is that over the long holiday there will be ONE traffic death out of each 360,000 of our population. Put that way. it sounds some what less terrifying. Looking at it from another an gle, the National Safety Council says this morning that between six o'clock tonight and midnight Monday. American motorists will drive 8.7 BILLION MILES. That would bo one dealh for each 17,000,000 miles driven More statistics: Pennsylvania's Bureau of Traf fic draws from its accident rec ords a profile of the typical traf fic victim over the Labor Day holiday. He will be. the Pennsylvania bureau says, between 17 and 27 years old. with no previous traf fic record. He will be killed between f p.m. and 5 a.m. WHILE TRY ING TO ROUND A CURVE AT EXCESSIVE SPEED. Michigan stale police say that those who will die in Michigan are most likely to be killed dur ing the first six hours of the holi day period WHILE DRIVING TOO FAST FOR ROAD CONDI TIONS in rural areas within 10 miles of the victim's home. Which is lo say: Both the Pennsylvania and the Michigan "profiles" indicate 0-at the bulk of the death toll over the long holiday that is couth;; up will result from reckless driv ingtaking curves at EXCES SIVE speed, driving too fas' for road conditions, etc. If you drive with reasonable care, these studies indicate, you will be reasonably certain U' come out of it unseamed. Question : What can we do to make driv ing in hcavv traffic saler'. i Meaning by that, what can tiu PUBLIC do? Individuals can lm prove the situation immensely by driving more safely.' More cops seems to be the answer. Nearly everybody drives more carelully if he thinks a cop may be watching him. Hundreds Will Die On Long Weekend By United Press International lot them would die in traffic acci- The citizens of the world's most dents during the weekend. Scores motorized civilization swarmed onto American highways today for the start of summers linal holiday, the 78-hour Labor Day weekend. The National Safety Council es timated that between 430 and 520 JFK Offers Treaty Mai! WASHINGTON UJPH Sena tors said today President Ken nedy had offered to let key mem Ijeis of Ihe Senate Foreign Re lations Committee read his cor respondence with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on the nuclear test ban treaty. But the committee, in approving the pact by a 16-1 vote Thursday, defeated a motion calling for the President to furnish copies of the correspondence lo the group. The treaty comes up in the Sen ate on Sept. 5. Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk who testified at a closed session Wednesday, told the lawmakers the President would bh willing to let several committee members conditions in rural areas within see Ihe exchange. I'n miles ot the victims home. more will succumb to assorted other accidents such as claimed 177 lives during Labor Day week end last year. According to the council, Amer ican motorists will drive 8.7 bil lion miles between 6 p.m. local time tonight and midnight Mon day. Record Set In 1962 During the 1962 Labor Day weekend a record 501 persons died in traffic accidents. Records were set during the Memorial and Independence Day weekends this year and Howard Pyle, safety council president, urged greater caution by motor ists "if we are to make sure this frightening performance is not re peated over Labor Day." Pennsylvania's Bureau of Traf fic drew a profile from its acci dents records of the typical traf fic victim over the Labor Day Holiday. He will be, the bureau said, between 17 and 27 years old, with no previous traffic record. He will be killed between 6 p.m. and 5 a.m. while trying to round a curve at excessive speed. Safer Far From Home But Michigan state police found that victims in that state were most likely to be killed during the first six hours of the holiday while driving too fast for road Railroad Dispute Talks Will Start Next Week i tment in Washington fjmm wrmfVtm ollowing a statement CfXfcl'V;, TJtl :lor of the Bureau of I - .S "all but one" of four mJ&C' V ,s WASHINGTON UP1 Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz has begun the job o( bringing rail un ion and management representa tives together for arbitration of the work rules dispute ordered Dy Congress. Wirtz wired both sides Thurs day to select neutral arbitrators by Thursday. The arbitrators will take up the two main issues on the dispute firemen and train crew makeup. Under legislation approved by Congress Thursday, three neu trals w ill join two representatives apiece from the unions and Ihe railroads to write the decision Wirtz Schedules Meeting Wirtz asked both sides to meet on Sept. 6. The rail unions have not announced their representa tives as vet. The railroads named MAKES GOOD PROGRESS WASHINGTON 'IT!' - Sen Clair Engle. D-C'alif.. is expect ed to be released from Doctors, Hospital within a week or 10 days following brain surgery Saturday. The operation on the 51-year-old Californian was needed lo correct circulatory trouble that alfected his right arm and lea. His office said Wednesday his recovery "continues lo lie excellent." Weed Plant Shut Down WEED. Calif. 't'Pl'-The In lernalional Paper Co. plant here has been closed down by picket- posted by Carpenters Union Local ISM of Redding. Company oflicials said the dis pute started Thursday because plant employes rather than union carpenters were used to install a debarking machine at the plywood mill. Tlic plant reopned Aug. 9 alter" being shut down for two months by (he Northwest-Northern Call linnia lumber strike. J. E. Wolle, chief negotiator dur ing the past bargaining, and Guy Knight, a vice president ol the Pennsylvania Railroad and for mer chairman of the Eastern Carriers Conlerence. In case union and management as is expected, cannot agree on the neutral arbitrators, the law provides tliat they will be named bv President Kennedy. Wirlz was said to be consider ing the names of several well known figures for the chairman ship of the seven-man board, but no decision was reached on its make - up in case the President must step into the deadlock. Under the law, the arbitrators will decide the question of dis placing firemen on freight and yard diesel locomotives and the reduction of train crew sizes, both of whieh were requested by man agement. Seek .lob Elimination The railroads hope to eliminate 37.000 liremen. and thousands of brakemen and yard helpers. The unions concede that some workers may be cut, but contend that the majority of them are needed for the safe operation of the rail roads. Wirtz also planned to use next week's meeting to set up further mediation sessions on so - called secondary issues in the dispute. Under the arbitration law, a strike is banned for 180 days, but some observers say that the side that is most adversely affected by the arbitration ruling may toughen its position on the sec ondary disputes. SHEPPTON. Pa. 'UPU - Stale mines chief H. Beecher Charm- bury said today a volunteer would be lowered more than 300 feet underground in an effort to find trapped miner Louis Bova. Tile decision to lower a volun teer was made fter a television camera dropped into a chamber where David Fellin and Henry Throne were trapped for 15 days recorded "what looked like the entire body of a man." "As a result of seeing the tel evision image this morning it was decided although not unanimous lythat we have enough evidence for someone to go dow n and take a look," Charmburv said. He said a volunteer whose name would not be disclosed un til his mission was completed to prevent his family from worrying would descend "sometime this afternoon." Rescuers readied rope and a parachute - type harness of the type used to rescue Fellin and Throne. Charmburv indicated that some of the mining experts were di vided as to whether the television camera recorded a body or mere ly clothing and equipment left be hind by the rescued miners. The camera, Charmbury said, was lowered into the escape hole through which David Fellin and Henry Throne were dramatically rescued early Tuesday. The Aug. 13 cave-in which im prisoned all three miners had trapped Bova separately from the other two. and they said they had not heard from him since Aug. 20 but Charmbury said it was possible Bova had come into the chamber since l'ellin and Throne were rescued. The camera, according to Charmbury, recorded what "look ed like the entire body of a man a miner's hat, head, shoulders, arms, legs and boots." The form, he said, appeared to be in a sit ting position against a wooden post. However, Charmbury empha sized that the findings of the camera were not conclusive. "It appears to be a man's body," he said. "We are by no means sure of this." He said further pictures were being taken and that a volunteer might be lowered into the hole today. Whether to send one of more than 20 volunteers down w as to depend on Ihe hazards involved and the scrutiny of pictures, Originally it had been planned to take pictures down another hole, 22 inches wide, reamed down Thursday to the presumed loca tion of the 52-ycar'old Bova, up when word reached officials that the remaining 18 men still in the mine were dead. Seven men survived the blast. Five were rescued Thursday night; two were rescued Wednesday, the day of the explosion. Sheriff John Stocks, who knew most of the victims personally, said it appeared that visual iden tification would be impossible in most cases. He said there was possibility he would ask the FBI to aid in the identification. Orders Inquiry The federal investigation into the blast was ordered by the in terior Department in Washington Thursday follow bv the directi Mines that fatal accidents involving workers at the mine property during the past 20 months "were prevent able. Bureau Director Marling J. An- keny said corrective measures had been recommended to the shaft-drilling contracting firm, Harrison International, Inc., of Miami, Fla., a Canadian concern. Ankeny said the mine still was in custody of the Harrison or ganization at the time of Tues day's explosion, but that Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. "was exercising some surveillance over the con tractors." Aid In Rescue Wednesday's survivors, Don Blake Hauna, '27. and Paul Mc- Kinney, 22. were at the mine Thursday to aid in the rescue of their five companions. The five included Charles Byrge, Helper. Utah; Robert June, Moab: Charles Clark, Moab; Tom Trueman, To ronto, and Grant H. Eslick. Moab. Eslick was the only employe of the Texas company. The 24 other men worked for Harrison Interna tional. Trueman and Hanna were hus pilalized for-trea'ment of in,v.u' ies and burns. Eslick said the smoke afler the blast gave him his "worst moments." "If a guy is going to panic, lie will do it in smoke," he said. June was asked how he spenl the 51 hours awaiting a rescue party. I just laid there and sweat," he said. Shortly after the five men were brought lo the surface, the crowd of newsmen and relatives which had kept a long vigil at the mine was told that Ihe 18 other men were dead. June Crawford, chief engineer for Ihe Texas company, said over a loud speaker: "For all of you on Ihe firing line, it's all over. There are no further survivors." The members of the minors' families took the news stoically on the whole, although one wom an shouted: "That's a hell of a brutal way to learn it. ennedy Issues Plea For Foreign Aid HYANN1S PORT. Mass. UPP President Kennedy made a strong public appeal today for the Senate to restore House cuts in his loreign aid program and said Americans must realize that "freedom docs not come cheaply or easilv. Kennedy warned Congress and the nation that unless Ihe billion dollar cuts arc restored. U.S. commitments from South Ameri ca to Southeast Asia will be se riously endangered. Kennedy called newsmen to the Cape Cod White House to restate his insistence upon undoing (he House action after meeting more than an hour with foreign aid di rector David Bell and retired Gen. Lucius D. Clay, who headed a special committee which stud ied the program. Unless the cuts are restored, Kennedy said, the United Stales will not fulf ill its commitments" to Latin America under the Alli ance for Progress or be able to ontinue military aid lo nations rimming the Iron Curtain. This will limit very much our ability to influence the events in these areas." Kennedy said. it was tlie second lime in a week that Kennedy lias made special appearances before re porters to denounce the House decision and lo urge Senate re storation of the money. The House last week slashed $585 million from the foreign aid authorization bill after its For eign Affairs Committee already had chopped about $400 million from it. This reduced Ihe amount from Kennedy's $4.5 billion re quest to $3.5 billion. The President already had scaled his request down by $400 million at the urging of Clay's 2 -- v-jr-- committee. And Clay last week also said the House had gone too far. The President's words were even stronger. He said that the 1960s will continue to be "very difficult" for the free world, add ing that "peaceful coexistence with Russia will be very intense." He said this applied particular ly with the competition between communism and freedom in Asia, Africa and Latin America. "We are going to make every possible effort to insure that the security of the United States and effective foreign policy will be m a i n t a I ned in the coming months," Kennedy said in report ing on his talk with Clay and Bell on what might be done to "strengthen this mutual security program." This is before the Congress but in a very real sense it is be fore all the American people," the President asserted. The President said he was confident" the American people will recognize that this effort in- volves our security" and the world's future hopes or peace. The President c a r r i e d his unique news conference further by submitting to questions, the first of which was about what strategy the administration would try to use to get back the re duced sums. "It is not a question of strat egy, Kennedy said. "We are trying to point up very clearly now important this is lo Ameri ca." He said that not only would aid to Latin America be imperiled, but there would be drastic ef fects on America's military aid to countries on the firing line." He specifically mentioned Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, South Vict Nam, Thailand -and South Korea. : . Government Payroll Hits Record High Arabs Fight Resolution UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UPI The Arab states, hacked by Russia, today sought to dilute an Anglo-American resolution con demning the "wanton murder" ol two Israelis in a raid on the Syrian-Israeli border. Morocco, representing the Arab position, indicated it would pies for a delay on a Security Council vole on the resolution. A delay would give the Arabs time to bring in amendments to the U.S. -British resolution or lo persuade council members In oppose the measure or abstain in the vote. At least 7 of the 11 members must approve Ihe reso lution for adoption. The council has been consider ing complaints by Israel and Syria in which each accuses Ihe other of aggression along their common border. There have been some armed clashes and an aerial dog fight in recent weeks. WASHINGTON 'UPU - Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va., said to- day lhat federal payroll costs eached an all-time high of $15.3 billion during fiscal I9ti3. In a statement accompanying the monthly report of his Com mittee on Reduction of Non essential Federal Spending, Byrd said the increase was almost one billion dollars over the fiscal year for 19(12. Byrd blamed the rise on an in crease in Ihe number of cm ployes in the government, plus sal ary increases for federal workers Bvrd's report showed federal civilian employment averaged 2, 49:1,374 during fiscal 1903, an in crease of 44.522 over the previous year. For July, the first month of the 1964 fiscal year, Byrd's report put the number of government em ployes at 2,318,900. Other congressional news: Northeast: Hep. F. Bradford Morse, It-Mass., introduced a bill (0 allow Northeast Airlines lo keep its Florida route, despite a Civil Aeronautics Board decision against the airline. In 1936. the CAB granted Northeast Airlines temporary rmission to fly the Florida route, but revoked il tli month, ellective Oct. 14. TOLL REACHES 18 Rescue workers carry the blanket covered body of one of IS miners who died in an underground explosion in a potash mine near Moab, Utah. Seven men survived the tragedy. UPI Telephoto 'We Drank Water And We Sweated;' Trappe EDITOR'S NOTE: T lm ni a a Trueman, Roherl June, Charles Byrge, Grant Eslick and Charles Clark know what it is like to be trapped for two days a half mile underground in an explosion shattered mine. Here arc their stories as told to United Press International By THOMAS TRUEMAN It was hot. We drank water and we sweated. And we wor ried ! Seven of us June, Byrge. Es lick, Clark and Paul McKinnev and Donald Blake Hanna, who were rescued Wednesday night were working in the cast drift when the explosion occurred. It happened about 20 minutes after a dynamite blast lhat must have been deep in the west drill. Then gas legan moving. It was heavy gas. creeping along the floor. For four or five hours we built barricade to try lo stop the gas. We knew it was deadly. We built the barricade out of pieces of metal vent lines and wood, then packed the bottom with salt. It was hoi. . .We used only one miner's lamp al a time so we would have light as long as pos sible. We still had one light when we were rescued. We took turns sleeping. We would sleep for about 10 minutes al a time. The rest of the time we would talk and just wait. I guess. We also wondered if the three others 'found dead by Mc Kinney and Blake 1 made it lo salcty. About 12 hours after the explo sion. Hanna and Mchinney lell. Then we had another worry: Did they make it'.' About 30 hours after the explo sion somebody up there repaired the high pressure air line and we began to gel a little new air. Not much. But it was enough. But we still had to sit, sweat and drink water. We heard the rescue coming about 10 minutes before they ar- ived. We heard the clank of metal on metal and knew they were on the way. When 1 saw them it was the greatest tiling I have ever seen in my life. Problem Hits Close To Home LOS ANGELES 'UPI '-Juveniles s'ole a camera, wal let and checkbook Thursday night Irom the car of local television personality nx Gi roux while lie was addressing a group in an elementary school on "the problem of juvenile delinquency in our society." By CHARLES CLARK It was hot down there and we started to drink water. We must have finished five gallons in 30 minutes. Then we started drink ing water out of water lines. It was river water but it was pretty good. We never gave up hope but we kept watching and wondering what was holding them up. They should have come sooner. It was rough. I'm tired and hungry but now 1 can eat and sleep. The first I actually realized Ihey 'the rescuers I were coming was when 1 happened lo glance up and saw one of their lights about 50 yards away. By ROBERT JUNE I could hear people yelling aft er the explosion hit. I heard a man screaming but 1 couldn't get to him. 1 think he was in the west drift. When the explosion came anoth er workman and I were discussing how to drill a hole. The blast knocked all of us down in our shaft, it was hot and smoky and pitch black. The temperature a couple of hours after the blast was 98 degrees. Afler we built the barrier, I just laid there and sweat. We drank water. . .it was muddy but it was sure good. By GRANT ESLICK We knew it was just a matter of -time and we never gave up hope. The smoke afler the blast gave me my worst moments. If a guy is going to panic he'll do it in the smoke. This fresh air sure tastes good, never thought fresh air could tasle so good. Wo were sure glad to sec the other two fellows (Hanna and Mc- Kinney! had made it out. By CHARLES BYRGE I don't think wo could have made it if it hadn't have been for Blake (Don Blake Hanna) and the other guy (Paul McKinncy). left us to go down the drift to see if they could find anyone else When they found three dead they decided that if the carbon mon oxide got those guys, it would eventually get us. I'm thankful they fixed the air line. I don't think there was ever enough air down there, bill at least there was aoough to keep us alive. Three Killed In Oregon By United Press International Three persons died in auto ac cidents in Oregon Thursday, two of them in a two-truck accident near Oakridge. Jack Edwin Wiley, 17, and Ken neth Edmund Heidrich, 16, both of Oakridge, were killed instantly when their pickup truck collided head-on with a truck and trailer just west of Willamette City on Highway 58. Driver of the truck and trailer rig, Robert Dewey Hiltmga, 23, Boise, Idaho, was not hurt. A sailor stationed at San Fran cisco, Wayne Simpson, 21, was killed and tlirce other young peo ple hurt Thursday night in a one- car crash on Sauvie Island. In jured were Betty Faye Farley, 17, and Pat Gentry, 18, both of War ren, and Thomas Thompson, 17, San Francisco. Meet Slated In Klamath SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) - A California legislative committee will meet with Oregon lawmakers next month to draw up plans for a compact commission to manage the interstate mule deer herd, it was announced today. Assemblywoman Pauline Davis, D - Portola, chairman of the As sembly Interim Committee on Fish and Game, said her group expects to meet with the Oregon Joint Legislative Interim Commit tee on Deer. One day of the hearing will be held in Yrcka, Calif., Mrs. Davis said, and the other in Klamath Falls, Ore. No specific dates have been set. Ranchers Face Task Of Selecting Proper Method For Marketing Crop By FLOYD L. WYNNE A rancher has to be able to do more than just raise a good crop these days. He also has to be able to market it profitably and that could be quite a task. Currently, a rancher who is qualified has the option of market ing his grain crop or of putting it under the federal basic loan pro gram. That sounds like a simple choice, but it isn't quite that ba sic. Prices being paid for grains on the commercial market at the moment are running very close to the imounts offered under the ba sic loan program. For instance, in wheat the cur rent market price appears lo be $2.75 lo $2.80 a hundredweight or for easier comparison, about $50 per ton. This compares with a basic loan rate of iw).67 per ton. However, the rancher must also consider the storage factor. If he has to store the wheat in com mercial storage until the govern ment lakcover next spring, this will cost him approximately $3 a Ion. This would reduce the basic loan rate, then, to $57.67 or slight ly above the present market price, Of course, if he has sufficient qual ified storage on his own ranch for the grain he is tliat much more lo the good. While wheat may not seem a factor in Basin crops, the county agent's office reports that 19,600 acres were planted to wheat In the Basin last year, including durum wheal. This produced a crop of 589.493 hundredweight or about 29,474 tons last year. The choice, however, is not so clear-cut for other grains. Feed barley, for instance, is cur rently getting $41 a ton in the commercial market. The basic loan rate on feed barley is $35.42. However, there is another factor lo be considered in barley. If the rancher has qualified for the basic loan by reducing his base acreage by 20 per cent, he then Is also eligible for another 14 cents a bushel price support on his barley which would raise the basic loan total to another $5.40 a ton to a total of $40.82 as against $41 a ton in the commercial market. However, again the storage problem becomes a factor amounting to $3 a ton w hich would (end to reduce the loan rate to $37.82 if stored commercially or leave it at $40.82 if stored m Ihe rancher's own facility. For oats, the market price is currnntly about $42 a ton which compares with a basic loan rate of $43.75 per ton. (Continued on Page 4) V
