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CtWP. The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS The big news today? Well, the story is loose in Wash ington tilts morning that the Rus sians are interested in buying an additional three million tons of American wheat. How much wheat is that? Out in the wide open spaces of the U.S.A., we think of wheat in terms of bushels, There are 33.3 bushels of wheat in a ton. So tlx Russians want to buy about 100 million bushels o American wheat. What to do about it? Let's put it this way: If you had wheat running out of your cars ... if all your storage space was full of it . . . if you didn't want to go in debt for the money with which to build more storage space ... if a lot of your land was better adapted to growing wheat than other crops ... if you had a LOT of money invested in equipment for grow ing wheat. . . . In that event, you would be very much interested if a big wheat buyer showed up in your neighborhood, wouldn't you? That seems to be just about what has happened. There's more to the proposed deal than just getting rid of the wheat of which we have a huge surplus. Tlie Russians, if they buy our surplus wheat, will PAY FOR IT IN GOLD. We need to get rid of the wheat If. for no better reason, we need to get rid of it because get ting rid of our huge wheat sur pluses would give us a lot of. storage for FUTURE surpluses if we go on subsidizing wheat in or der to get farm votes. And- We also need the GOLD that tiie Russians will pay for it with. What do our farmers think of the deal? Secretary of Agriculture Free man says in Washington this morning: "About two out of every three farmers 1 have talked to favor UNLOADING the wheat." Question: Why does wheat? Russia need the One answer, of course, is that this has been a bad crop year all over Europe. The weather has been cold and wet and generally unfavorable. Another reason is that the Rus sian farmers aren't very good farmers. Kroosh is urging them to PRODUCE MORE WHEAT. "The way to do this." he has been telling them, "is for Russia to MANUFACTURE and the Russian farmers to USE, as much chemi cal fertilizer as the U.S. farmers do." In other words: Kroosh is telling his people that the way to produce the addi tional wheat and other crops they need is to DO AS THE AMERI CANS DO. He seems to have forgotten those days when he was telling us that the communist system is so vastly better than the Ameri can system that "eventually WE WILL BURY YOU under our superior production." A cog somewhere in the com munist system seems to have slipped. PREDICTS WARM WEATHER WASHINGTON (UPD - The weather bureau predicts warmer than usual weather this month except in the eastern half of the nation where temperatures are expected to dip below normal. October's chills will be felt sooner in states bordering the At lantic, the Gulf of Mexico and the Appalachia n Mountains. Senate Rescue Operation Starts To Save Civil Rights Commission WASHINGTON (UPD-The Sen ale today started rescue opera tions for the Civil Rights Com mission which lapsed into limbo last midmVit. Senate Democratic Whip Hu bert H. Humphrey, Minn., pre dicted a vote today on a one year extension of the agency which has spent six years study ing racial discrimination. Passage by an overwhelming margin was assured. Southerners contented themselves with little more than token opposition in the form of fairly brief speeches. The commission's last two-year term expired at midnight, but 60 days of suspended animation is allowed for winding up the agen cy's affairs. Notice was mailed to two-thirds of the commission staff Monday informing them that their jobs will end at the end of October. Only 1 members of a skeleton staff escaped the pink slip. Humphrey and Sens. Kenneth B. Keating,' R-N.Y., and Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., urged the em ployes to stay on the job. In a Weather Klamath Falls, Tuleleke and lekeviewi Mestlv fair Hireuah Wednesoev with IIHM change In temperatures. Law tonight 4e enceet nnr jj ,m tpotly light (rati in lha Lawir Klamath Basin. Hlgha Wednes day as la !. Varlabla wIMa ond.r ll miles par heur. High yestereay n Lew this morning 41 High vtar age 77 Lew year ago 41 Precip. last 24 heura .00 Since Jan. 1 4.74 Same period year age t.n Demo Leaders Study Wheat Sale GOP Soions Query JFK On Proposal WASHINGTON (UPH - Presi dent Kennedy and Democratic congressional leaders conferred today about prospects for sale of American surplus wheat to t h e Soviet Union. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield told reporters aft erward that the matter is under serious consideration and Con gress is being kept informed" by the administration. Mansfield said the matter came up only "inci dentally" at Kennedy's regular weekly breakfast meeting with the leaders and received only brief mention because of the press of other business. Asked whether it would be necessary for Congress to indi cate its attitude on the question belore an export license was is sued for the wheat sale, Mans field replied: "Not at all." But he emphasized that the Senate committees with an inter est i', the matter were being kept iffurmcd of developments. Ten Republican wheat stale congressmen earlier urged the Chief Executive to "clarify" his position on the wheat -proposal. The legislators' wire to Kenne dy came after three cabinet-level officials endorsed the transaction at a meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations and Agricul ture Committees. Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman. Commerce Secre tary Luther H. Hodges and Un der Secretary of State George W Ball told the senators at a closed- door session that the administra tion would decide within the next few days whether to allow pri vale U. S. wheat traders to sell to the Russians. The 10 congressmen asked Ken nedy what diplomatic pressure the United States could apply to other free world countries trad ing with Cuba or other Commu nist nations if the U. i.-Kussian wheat deal went through. "Will such a sale to Russia impair the present policy of containment in Cuba?" they asked. They also asked what the fu ture U. S. policy would be toward Red China, Communist North Viet Nam and Cuba should those nations offer gold or dollars for wheat or any other surplus farm products. 'Burning' Sign Stirs Firemen PORTLAND (UP1) - Port land Fire Bureau trucks on their way to a reported blaze at the Portland Heart and Convalescent Hospital re turned to their stations Mon day night when the dispatcher said: "Hold down your sirens. It's a neon sign on the side of the building." Senate speech, Humphrey as sured the employes that Congress would grant an extension. But the employes probably won't know for sure until next week. Sources said there was only a slim chance the House would pass the measure by the end of this week. Humphrey began the rescue op eration Monday by calling up a bill to pay death compensation to a World War II widow. The one year extension was attached to the bill as a rider. Sen. Richard B. Russell, D Ga., led a verbal assault on the commission. He spoke twice, first for himself and then for Sen. John C. Stennis. D-Miss. Russell said that the commis sion was prejudiced against white southerners and should be per mitted to die. He described as genocide a commission recom mendation that the President be authorized to cut off funds to Mississippi. He said it was "a policy of cruel and inhuman punishment ... without parallel sine man kZ . Price Ten Cents 14 Pages APPLES SYMBOLIZE WILLIAM TELL TEST Col. from left, and Lt. Col. Richard C. Garrett receive, fighter squadron, a box of Oregon produced apples from Jim Monteith, left, and George Callison,, right, representing the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce. The apples were presented to the squadron in recognition of its participation in the Wil liam Tell aerial weapons competitions; slated Oct. 7 through 14 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. USAF Photo Air Force Live-Fire Contest Inspires Callison To Poetry Springtime and a shapely fem inine figure inspire most men to court the muse but in the case of George Callison it takes a touch of fall weather and the image of an apple, of all things, to send him scribbling lines of poetry. Callison, manager of Hie Klam ath County Chamber of Com- merce, was inspired to rhyme last week when he and Jim Monteith, president of the local chamber, called at Kingsley Field to pre sent a box of Oregon produced apples to Col. Edwin J. Witzen burger, commanding officer of Ihe airfield, and Lt. Col. Richard C. Garrett, fighter squadron com mander. The apples were to symbolize the participation of Kingsley Field next Oct! 7 through 14 in Project William Tell, a live missile fir ing competition at Tyndall Air Force Base, and with the pre sentation Callison orated a bit of doggerel he had composed for the occasion. With locally known rhetoric, he recited: In days of old, an archer bold Renowned in song and story . . . Valachi Says Genovese Has Ties In WASHINGTON (UPD - Un derworld informer Joseph Valachi said today that jailed Cosa Nos tra leader Vito Genovese still has gambling interests in Las Vegas, Nev., in association with gambler Mever Lansky. Valachi also told of gangland murders in a struggle for control of New York mobs as he sumed his testimony before the Senate investigations subcommit tec. The subcommittee unveiled a has emerged from the animal state . . ." Other southern senators who assailed the commission were Sens. Strom Thurmond. D-S.C Spessard L. Holland, D-Fla., Sam J. Ervin. D-N.C, and Herman E. Talmadse. D-Ga. Russell also called the civil rights package under considera tion by a House Judiciary sud committee "a witch s broth such as has never been brewed in all the history of legislation The House subcommittee met today on the strong bill it ten tatively approved last week Chairman Emanuel Celler, D N.Y., hoped to get final action on the measure today or Vtednos dav. The measure is more far-reach ing than Kennedy's June 19 re quest in nearly every field, with particularly controversial propos als on public accommodations, employment discrimination, vot ing and civil rights lawsuits. The House Judiciary Commit- lee is expected to modify some I or all of these provisions. AMD UOCUaW rttc Set free his fellow countrymen And to his name brought glory One William Tell, with arrow true The target didn't miss . . . Deposed Ihe Austrian tyrant And became hero of the Swiss, Today the story's much the same And to preserve our nation's free dom Vie have heroes, too . . . our fighter crew Who are right there when we need 'em. A salute to you . . . . three-two-two We know you'll win men of the the prize, just give We wish you well . . . 'em . . . Right between the eyes. And when with problems difficult You find that you must g r a p pie . . . Remember the indomitable Wil liam Tell And split yourselves an apple! Good luck. Colonel Witzenburger prevailed upon Callison to return to the base Tuesday and repeat h i s Las Vegas master chart naming the leaders of New York's notorious "five families" which allegedly domi nate the rackets in the nation's largest city. It said Genovese, Carlo Gambi- no, Guiseppe (Joel Magliocco, Joseph Bonanno and Gaetano Lucchese now control the under world with the aid of seven un derbosses. Sen. Jacob Javits, R N.Y. recalled that Valachi testified Friday that Genovese, now serv ing a 15 - year term for narcot ics violations at the federal pris on In Leavenworth, had interests in Las Vegas. He asked what out fit was under Genovese's control. "Anywhere that Meyer Lansky , there's Genovese," Valachi re plied. "They do everything to gether." He said the ties persist ed to the present as far as he knew. Lansky has long been listed as a top-level racketeer by law en forcement authorities. In 1951 the special Senate Crime Committee. headed by the late Sen. Estes Kofauver, D - Tenn., grouped Lansky with Frank Costello and Joe Adonis as "the eastern axis of a combination of racketeers working throughout the nation. In that period Lansky's position as outlined by the Kefauver com mittee, was clearly above Geno vese s In the hierarchy of what the 1951 committee called the Mafia." Ally. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said meantime that the govern ment plans to use Valachi later a witness in federal criminal trials against certain leaders of organized crime. Valachi dealt in considerable detail with his New York City criminal activities before he joined Cosa Nostra. He said he first learned of murder-for-hire while serving a 44-month sen tence in Sing fiing in the mid-1920s. - - m KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Edwin J. Witzenburger, second on behalf of the Kingsley Field rhyme before base personnel as they prepared to be airlifted to the South via a C-54 cargo plane Tile apples were to be distributed at that time. William Tell 1983 is a worldwide fighter-interceptor weapons com petition, held every two years for fighters. The name is taken from the 15th Century marksman who defied an Austrian tyrant and earned his freedom by shooting an apple off his son's head with a crossbow. As the original arch er William Tell, the 1IIB3 meet symbolizes willingness to defend freedom. Winds Lash Tiny Island In Caribbean SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPD-Hur- ricane Flora, the season's most intense tropical twister, headed into the Caribbean south of Puerto Rico today from the tiny island of Tobago which it swept with devastating winds. Weathermen here said the storm, packing winds of 110 miles per hour near her center, pre sented no immediate threat to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Is lands, but warned "there is a definite possibility" of a north ward turn. The San Juan Weather Bureau in a 6 a.m. EDT hurricane ad visory located Flora near latitude 12.4 north, longitude 04.2 west, or about 100 statute miles west of Grenada and around 450 miles south-southeast of San Juan. Flora, sixth hurricane of the season, was moving west northwest about 15 m.p.h. Hurricane force winds extended 30 miles in the northern semi circle from the center, and gales blew outward 125 miles to the north and cast and 50 miles to the south and west. 'Ships in the path of the hur ricane should exercise extreme caution as Flora is intense over a small area near the center," weathermen warned. Flora, spotted by America's Ti ros weather - eye satellite, smashed into Tobago Monday only two hours' after It was pin pointed by hurricane hunter planes. Winds of up to 100 miles an hour lashed the island inflict ing widespread damage. Bombing BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (UPD -Two suspects being held in con nection with recent racial bomb ings in this steel city undergo further questioning today by slate investigators. Slate authorities have kept se cret details of the arrests of the two suspects and results ofcar-l lier questioning of the men. The suspects, both with Ku Klux Klan backgrounds, under went questioning by state investi gators Monday at the city jail where they can be held 72 hours on an 0n charge. Col. Al Lingo, head of the state police, identified the men, ar rested Sunday night, as R. E, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1963 felbel - eon Civil War Threatened In Algeria ALGIERS (UPD - Col. Mo hand Ou El Hadj today called on troops of his 7th Military Region to join his rebel movement against President Ahmed Ben Bella and in an, order of the day boasted he would crush any at tempt to subdue him. From his headquarters at Mi- chelct, one ol three opposition strongholds in the Grand Kabylia Berber region, the grizzled Bo- year-old veteran of the war for independence issued the appeal at noon (7 a.m. EDT). His last act of defiance indi catea resident Ben Bella may have to use force to quell the in surgents headed by El Hadj and his nnlitir-al allv Hm-inn Ail Ah. marl rJi.irm f ll, l nn,4nl i I Socialist Forces Front (FFS), The mounting tension between tne loyalist and dissident camps caused worry among French au thorities for the safety of the 100,- 0(10 French residents still livinE in Algeria. French Ambassador Georges Gorse flew to Paris for consulta tions. But French authorities said there was no question of halting the gradual repatriation of the remaining French forces due to be completely evacuated by the end of next year. In his order of the day, Col. El Hadj said to his Berber tribes men followers: "The time has come to launch a decisive struggle against the dictatorial regime. Let us close our ranks against which the Ben Bellas and the Boumedicnnes (Defense Minister Col. Houari Boumedienne) and other crea tures of the fascist regime shall come and shatter themselves. Re join me in my combat. Together, we shall finish the police regime and set up democracy which will give the right of speech to all revolutionaries. Ail Ahmed told his followers Monday night in Michclct: "Re sistance to the government will only end with the overthrow of the dictatorship and installation of the democratic regime for which our people fought for seven years. There has been no bloodshed thus far, although government troops Monday forced rebel units to abandon two towns, only to surrender them to the rebels once more later in the day. Today the insurgents controlled the city of Tizi-Ouzou and the neighboring towns of Michelet and Fort National. Ben Bella Monday night de nounced the leaders of the dissi dents, veteran Col. Mohand Oil El Hadj and Hocine Ait Ahmed, his former deputy premier, and appealed for public support for his army as it moved to combat the threat of civil war. He also accused neighboring Morocco of backing the Insur gents. (Morocco s news agency report ed that Algerian army reinforce ments had arrived on its border, where there have been frequent minor incidents in recent weeks.) Ben Bella did not explain t h e connection between Morocco and the uprising in the Kabylia Moun tain area, about 500 miles to the cast, except to note that another dissident former vice premier Belkacem Krim, visited Morocco recently. Suspects Chamhliss, 50, and Charles Cagle, 22, both of the Birmingham area. Those are the men being held in connection with the bombings," Lingo said. But, he added, "we are not through yet" with the investiga tion of bombings here, the worst of which, on Sept. 15, killed four Negro girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church. The city has had 2.1 bombings since 1956 and none has been solved despite around $80,000 in reward money. Lingo said Chambliss was given a lie detector test late (Monday but it was not known whether Cagle took similar test. The re sults were not diKloeed. The of Telephone Army ella's oveeGuS . X ' 'X a-4 i THAW CONTINUES Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (second from leff), laughingly "splits" a handshake between U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and UN Secretary General U Thant, while British Foreign Secretary Lord Home looks on. The "Big Three" Rusk, Gromyko and Home were attending a UN dinner party in New York given for them by U Thant. UPI Telephoto Home Welcomes Soviet Change, Condemns Red China In UN Talk UNITED NATIONS, N. Y (UPD British Foreign Secre tary Lord Home today welcomed Russia's renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy and warned Communist China that a nuclear conflict would annihilate it. Home, In a policy speech to the General Assembly, told the new countries of Asia and Africa to drop their cry of "nco-coloni alism" unless they want to lose investment capital from the de veloped countries. 'A few more cases like that of Indonesia and the supply of capital will dry up," Home said In a brief reference to the seiz ure of British investments in In donesia following the London backed formation of the new fed eration of Malaysia, Home said there were signs that herald "a new chapter of co McNamara And Taylor End Tour Of Vief Nam SAIGON, South Vict Nam (UPD Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara tonight ended a week's visit to South Viet Nam during which he said he traveled the "length and breadth of this land" in order to find out how the war against the Communist Vict Cong is going. McNamara, in a brief depar ture statement, said he and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked with "several hundred persons" in an effort to give President Kennedy a first-hand report on the situation in South Viet Nam. We've been in each of the four tactical zones," he added. We've talked with people at all levels including President Diem nd Vice President 'Nugycn Hgoc) Tho and members of the cabinet. "We've met with military per sonnel, both Vietnamese and American, at all echelons, pri vately as well as In groups, Face Further Questioning fice of Gov, George Wallace in Montgomery was expected to re lease a statement on tho arrests Monday, but no such statement was made. Chambliss, with a record of several arrests but no convictions in connection with various Klan activities, was dismissed as a city employe in 1!H9 for smash ing a newsman s camera at a Klan rally. He signed a petition in the 1950s to Incorporate the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, Inc. Cagle, son of a Freewill Bap tist minister, was arrested near Tuscaloosa in June, several days before the integration of the Uni versity of Alabama, on charge TU 4-8111 No. 7590 Calls For: Pff"ml;-t-fW . -v- - uf. operation" between East and West. Mr. Khrushchev has time and again in recent months declared on behalf of the Soviet govern- ment that to interpret Commu nist doctrine in terms of world war is wrong and is folly," lie said. "So strongly has ho to use (he wrong metaphor stuck to his guns that he and his Soviet colleagues have been ready to split the Communist world in half rather than com promise... On paper, Communist theory may include the use of force but the national interest of the So viet Union cannot endorse it, "China at present may think that from a nuclear holocaust she would Inherit the earth. But she will learn as she gains nu clear knowledgo that all her mil lions would not save her from annihilation if nuclear war were to break. China, too, in her turn, McNamara said it has been a "most fruitful week." He said he would submit a re port to Kennedy which will give him "our evaluation of the coun tcr insurgency action against the Communist Viet Cong. McNamara, Taylor and their party left Saigon at 6.05 p.m. (6:05 a.m. EDT) aboard a four- engine converted tanker for Hon olulu where they will spend sev eral hours conferring with Adm. Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in chief, Pacific, before their de parture for Washington. Their stops Included both the Saigon headquarters of the 17,000- man American military effort that costs $1.5 million a day to operate end a strategic village In the heart of the guerrilla coun try. Their conversations ranged from a five-hour talk with Pros- dent Diem to a halting interroga tion, through an interpreter, of a captured guerrilla. of carrying a concealed weapon. No date for his trial has been set. Cagle was In a group of men, some of them Klansmcn, picked up en route to a Klan rally. Cagle's father, the Rev, A. M. Cagle, said Monday that his son "broke away from the Klan about two months ago." He said Cliaik-s, a laborer for an engi neering firm, was arrested after his return from church Sunday night. "We've got to look to the Lord," he said. The arrests came as a surprise to local authorities, but Police Chief Jamie Moore said "we have been aware of some of the suspects questioned by slat in Weather ASKICULTUR4L OMCAaT -. Harvest outlook la tar good to axceltant conditions will little or no precipitation and above normal temperatures next four days. I will be compelled to drop force from her national program if the wishes to survive.' The lean and balding British leader said he could see some value in Russia'e proposal for an 18 -nation disarmament summit conference in Moscow next year if preliminary talks showed a pos sibility of agreement on: Refusal of countries having nuclear weapons to give them, or the secret of making them, to countries that do not have them. Stationing of observers in NATO and Warsaw pact countries as a guard against surprise at tack. , Unity Move Wins Favor Of Council VATICAN CITY (UPI) - The Ecumenical Council gave "nearly unanimous" preliminary approval today to a document that could mark a great step toward Chris tian tmity. During a three-hour session. about 2,300 Roman Catholic pre lates ruled that the proposal "do ecclesia" about the church was fit for further debate. Authoritative sources said the council "will now begin a point- by-point discussion." The Latin debate may go on for weeks be fore there is a final vote. The document goes a long way toward espousing the cherished Protestant doctrine of "the priest hood of all believers." There was no immediate offi cial communique or press brief ing. Official details of today's ses sion probably will be given out later in the afternoon. The first working session of the council Monday made It clear, of ficial informants said, that the draft enjoyed predominant sup port, especially from the "liber als" who are bent on a far reaching renewal of the church to help make Christian unity pos sible. vestigators and had knowledge of their activities. "However," Moore said, "at the time of their arrests, we (clt we did not have enough evidence on any of them for a conviction." Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday that possi ble progress in the Investigation of the bombings eliminated the necessity (or immediate racial demonstrations. He left for his home In Atlanta but said be would return next weekend to evaluate talks between city offi cials, Negro leaders and a two man team appointed by President Kennedy to work for racial peace here.
