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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
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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
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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
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. 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.