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The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Secretary of the Treasury Doug las Dillon gave a flat endorse ment Sunday to the idea of sell ing American wheat to the grain short Soviet bloc. Asked by a reporter for his views on wheat sales, he replied: "I want to emphasize the im portance we attach to the possi bility of sales of wheat and oth er grains to the Soviet bloc as a means of assisting us in the han dling of our BALANCE OF PAY MENTS problem." You may ask: What is this balance of pay ments problem that we hear so much about? The answer is quite simple: We are spending more dollars abroad than we are getting back from abroad. So we are getting ourselves into the same kind of fix you would get yourself into if you PERSISTENTLY spent more , wan you took in. Question No. 2: How will wheat sales to the So viet Union help to keep us out of bad trouble? Secretary Dillon gives this an swer: "Grain sales to the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites might add $200 million to $300 million perhaps MORE to American exports, thus helping to check the drain of our dollars." Secretary Dillon then added: "I am speaking for the U.S. treasury and not for the Kennedy administration. I can't predict what position President Kennedy may take, or when a decision might come." Treasury Secretary Dillon is a REPUBLICAN. He was undersec retary of state in the Eisenhow. er administration. One more question: How do American farmers feel about this proposed wheat deal? There has been no authoritative statement of their views. But, presumably they are FOR it Why? Let's put it this way: We have an immense surplus of wheat. Our warehouses are bursting with it. This immense surplus Hangs over the markets of the future like a dark thundercloud. As long as it exists, the chances of better wheat prices are, slim. If, for whatever reason, the surplus should be THROWN ON THE MARKET, the bottom would fall out from under prices. So- It is a logical conclusion that American wheat farmers would like to see the surplus disposed of, at this time when wheat produc tion in Russia and more or less all over Europe is below normal, and demand is strong. That makes sense. Poll Topped By Medford PORTLAND (UPD - Medford moved back to the lop of the A-l football liH in the Journal coaches' poll today. The Southern Oregon power house, defending state champion, polled 75 of a possible 80 points to 72 points for second place Roseburg, last week's leader. Medford is 3-1 for the season, los ing to Boise. Roseburg is 4-0. t-i Others in the top 10 included, nlP r.rqnl. Pace PAnUotnn in order, Grants Pass. Pendleton. Grant, North Salem, Cottage Grove, Central Catholic, Parkrose and Beaverton. Also getting votes! were Jefferson, St. Helens. field, Lincoln and Wy'eart. I Hurricane Flora Rips Flooded Cuban Region MIAMI (UPD Deadly Hurri cane Flora made a slow turn northward today and then stalled once again over flooded eastern Cuba to inflict a fourth day of punishment on the region that produces most o the island's food. Cuban Premier Fidel Castro ar rived at Santiago, capital of Ori ent, to take personal command of relief operations which ap peared from radio reports to be blocked by the continued pound ing of torrential rains.' Radio reports of crop and live stock losses, monitored here, be gan to reach disaster proportions. At noon. EDT, the Miami W eather Bureau located the hur ricane's center south of Cama guey, about halfway between the city and the southern coast. This was about the same location the storm took up early today after it drilled slightly northward out of the Bay of Guacanayabo. "TV steering currents sur rounding the hurricane remain Weather Kiamtrn Ftu, TuhHtk and Laktvitw MotUy fair through Tunday. Cool atain tonight with froat. Lows ntar n, octet IS to II in normally cooltr ortoi. Hfths Tuasday 45-7. Variable windt HI milti por hour. High yosltrday 42 Low this morning H High year ago jj tow yaar ago j Procfp. past 14 hour ,or Sinct Jan. 1 Samt poriod litt ytar io! KINGSLEY SQUADRON IN FIGHTER TEST A Kings, ley Field team with its weapons and aircraft, similar to the force pictured above, began competing in missile firing competitions today at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, to determine which Air Force fighter squadrons are the world's best. The Kingsley Field team of F-I0IB Voodoo Interceptor aircraft is competing in Category I of Kingsley Macmillan Resignation Requested LONDON (UPD Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan, tacea with new resignation demands from within his own party ranks, today began a crucial week of political activity. Macmillan's Conservative party will open its annual conference, Wednesday at the seaside resort of Blackpool. It will be tne last such meeting before the general elections Macmillan must can within the next 12 months, and the Conservatives must use it to recapture the initiative from the opposition Labor party. Labor wound up US convention last week with a rare show of unity between left and right wings, a series of attacks on Macmillan for permitting large scale unemployment and the sex and security scandals, and a sweeping program of social re form. Opinion polls pave been show ing a Labor lead over the Con servatives for many weeks. In contrast to this public expres sion of unity, Macmillan had cri ticism from two groups within his party. One is the influential Mon day Club, said to be advising its 300 members it would be "utterly wrong' for the 69-year-old prime Marsh-minister to remain in power un- 111 the elections quite weak and variable so movement will be very slow" the Weather Bureau said. "How ever, there are some indications of a trend to a slow northward drift at not more than five miles per hour beginning late today or tonight. The Weather Bureau warned all interests north of the storm, "particularly the Bahamas," to maintain vigilance. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, presi dent ot Cuba's Agrarian Relorm Institute, reported to the nation on Havana Radio this morning that half of Cuba's rice crop. 25 to 50 per cent of the cotton crop and -to million pounds of corn had been detroyed. Rodriguez also said poultry farms of central and eastern Cuba had suffered "enormous damage." Chicken and rice are the main staples of the Cuban diet. Earlier, unolficial radio reports estimated 90 per cent of Cuba's coffee crop, which had just reached maturity in the Oriente mountains, had been destroyed. Price Tea Cents 34 Ready For Tell Contest Editor's Note: The following Is a special report received by the Herald and News from the King sley Field Fighter Squadron en its progress In the William Tell missile firing competitions which started today at Tyndall AFB, Fla. Further reports will be pub lished as they are received. TYNDALL AFB, Fla. - It's a sunny but windy morning in Pan ama City, Fla., but Kingsley Field's flying and maintenance crews participating in the 1963 Air Force World Wide Fighter Inter ceptor meet at Tyndall Air Force Base are not really concerned about the weather. They are ready to roll in the William Tell fighter shootoff which will - pit them against three other crack F101B units in a world champion wea Father Says Daughter Sad Power-Mad Case NEW YORK (UPD Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu Sunday sharply criticized U.S. officials in South Viet Nam Sunday and was, in turn, sharply criticized by her father, their country's former ambassador to the United States. Mme. Nhu and the father, Tran Van Chuong, spoke in separate television interviews about the troubled political situation in the Southeast Asian nation. The controversial Mme. Nhu, sister-in-law of South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem, charged that U.S. officials in the country gave the impression of being merely "spectators of a show." "They do not give us the im pression they are actually fight ing with us," she said on a pro gram which was filmed in her hotel suite in Paris. Barry Lists Arrival Time EUGENE UPI Sen. Barry Goldwalcr, R-Ariz., is expected to arrive here aoout 4 p.m. Satur day, three hours before he speaks at McArlhur Court on the Univer sity of Oregon campus, a GOP oflicial said today. Both Goldwaler and New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller are scheduled to speak Saturday at the Western Republican Confer ence, but at dilfercnt times. Rockefeller's speech is scheduled at noon at McArthur Court. Foster Anderson, co-chairman of the committee on arrange ments for the conlerence, said Goldwater planned a news con ference at 6 pm. at McArthur Court's Lettermen's Room. The Arizona senator also plans a talk at the Lane County Fairgrounds following his McArthur Court speech. - aTa aV atauau JVaafaD VlUrU. sum Pages the live missile and rocket firing match. Each unit is al lowed to enter four aircraft, which are kept aloft by four pilots, four radar observers, a maintenance officer, tech nical representatives, weapons loading crew and main tenance team workers. The contest is tabbed "William Tell 1963" and will conclude Oct. 14. USAF Photo pons meet. In lust minutes at 10:20 a.m. PDT, Kingsley goes on alert to wait for the call to scramble for the enemy. The bombers in this case are in the form of jet drones, built to be shot down by superson ic fighters. The weather is' clear but windy according to Squadron Comman der Lt. Col. Richard C. Garrett however, winds are no problem unless they are of hurricane force. The only worry, he concedes. that Tyndall could get rain and hurricane winds from Flora, which is now off the coast of Cuba, a scant few hundred miles away." The . crew attitude is that ot cheerful anticipation, according to M.Sgt. Jack O. Reraicls, Kingsley Field organizational maintenance Chuong, who resigned in protest against the Diem regime and its policies, denounced the state ments of his daughter as "a very sad case of power madness." The Diem regime, he said, "is so backward, inefficient and op pressive that it has become the greatest asset to the Communists and the biggest obstacle toxvic- tory in Viet Nam." Chuong appeared on a recorded interview with Sen. Kenneth B Keating, R - N.Y., who renewed his call for a full congressional investigation of the situation in South Vict Nam. Mme. Nhu said there are "jun ior" U.S. officials in South Viet Nam who "are betraying the of ficial policies of the American government" by talking openly about the possible overthrow of her brotlier-in-law's regime. Many of these officials, she said, publicly discussed their at-j tempts to "kick away" former U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting. who preceded Henry Ca bot Lodge in the Saigon post. She said Lodge's recent criti cism of her may not have im paired his relationship with Diem, but has damaged "his relation ship with me." "But maybe I am a good girl and maybe I may forget," she said of Lodge's remark. Madame Nhu was asked what she might say to President Ken nedy if she gets the opportunity to see him during her forthcom ing visit to the United States. She replied: "I think I shall be satisfied to say to him 'Bonour' (good dayi, and the rest will come according to the inspiration of the mo ment." Chuong predicted that his daughter Mould spearhead "an all-out propaganda effort in the United Stales" to publicize the Diem viewpoint. She was, he said "the strongest headline capturer in Viet Nam. U.OP ORE.LtSRART CEH.REF.AtO MCOIEHT3 Mt. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Loyal Troops Pull Cordon Around Rebs ALGIERS, Algeria (UPD Troops loyal to Premier Ahmed Ben Bella tightened a machine- gun cordon today around the mountain stronghold of ,000 lougn ceroer reoeis wno tnrcaten the nation with civil war. The first major uprising in Al geria's one-year history as an in-, dependent nation has so far been almost exclusively a war of words. Shots were fired for the first time last Friday, when a rebel soldier was wounded and six loy alists captured! Ben Bella's troops, dressed in! battle garb, set up roadblocks around Blida and on the high ways to Medea, Michelet, Ber roughia and Boufarik in an at tempt to seal off the insurgents. Patrols fanned out overland. Injured Woman Still Critical MEDFORD 'UPD- Mrs. Mil dred May, 52, of Eugene, who was injured in a two-car accident on highway 97 north of Klamath Falls Friday night, was reported in critical condition at Rogue Valley hospital here today. State Rep. William O. Kelsay, DRosehurg, was killed in the accident. - , '-.;'UliS1Himinm - aaaa-' cat Potato Festival Plans Finalized By Committee MERRILL Potato festival plans are swinging into high gear with committee members plan ning for the annual banquet on Friday flight as the kick-off; the big parade on Saturday morning, free beef barbecue, two football games and the annual harvest hall. The following have been ap pointed to the arious committees necessary to make the 27th an nual festival a success: Central committee: Robert Pel rik. chairman. Illys Reeves, sec retary. Mure! Long. Bill Gasser, Lawson Kandra, Alonzo Hodges. Don Crawford, Jim Shuck. Subcommittee members: adver tising, Roberta Dewey; publicity. Lou Reid; program, Illys Reeves; banquet, Murel Long and Law rence tieraghty; dances, James COXP. MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1963 Record Funds For Space Plans Approved Despite GOP Warning WASHINGTON' (UPli - The House Appropriations Committee voted a record $5.1 billion today to push space exploration despite a Republican warning that Rus sia may orbit a 100 -megaton bomb while this country concen trates on sending a man to the moon. The total space allowance was $251 million less than was author ized by Congress in separate legis lation earlier this year and $612 million less than President Ken nedy originally wanted. Diem Says U.S. Nov Ready For SAIGON (UPD-Prcsidont Ngo Dinh Diem said today his Un supported army now has the strength to take the offensive against the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas on all fronts. Diem's speech to the newly elected national assembly was made as a U.S. congressional in vestigation team began probing the political situation and war ef fort of this Southeast Asian na tion. The mission's leader, Rep. Clement Zablocki, D-Wis., said the results of the investigation might affect aid appropriations! to this and other nations. Diem predicted "certain vie-! tory" in the war against the guerrillas. At this same date last year. we were able to say that we had1 stopped being on the defensive and that we had been able to seize the initiative from the ene- my's hands," he said. ."Today we Uaia nnna ntia "eto-i further "We are capable of taking thecentral market square. One of Solon Says Real Issue SALEM (UPD The campaign to set a sales tax in Oregon the real issue involved in the Oct. 15 tax referendum election, Rep. Ross Morgan, D - Gresham, charged Sunday. He voiced the opinion at a luncheon during the Democratic State Central Committee meeting held here. "Some people want a sales tax so bad they are willing to &cll the slate down the river to get one," Morgan said. Morgan, who was co-chairman of the legislatures ways end Means Committee, urged Bupport of the tax measure, and warned a no vote will 6et the whole state back." Rep. Richard Eymann, D-Mar- cola, chairman of the House Tax Committee, said "Oregon's future is in the balance" in the tax elec tion. "It is important that the Demo cratic party lead the battle or a yes vole. The Republicans voted for spending, but they reluse to back the tax bill." He added "sales tax advocates hope to see the stale In such chaotic situation that all groups Chance and Clair Duncan; queen's court, Illys Rejigs; barbecue, Bill Gasser and Bill Falvey; barbe cue, Walt Wilson and Bud Maupin. Parade, Don Crawford and Dick Hart; queen's float, Wendell Moore, John Moore, Dale Moore; potato exhibits, Lawson Kandra, Mary Retterath; exhibits (sales booths Don Pyle; inside exhib its, Cliff Ongman; outside exhib it", Milton Fiege and Bernace Wil son: sports, John Mathis. Harvest flower show, Mrs. Jack Fleik, Mary Francis Hammond potato foods contest. Mrs. Don Ratliff, Mrs. .lerry Maxwell; dec orations, Walter Fotheringham: public address announcer, Wil liam Kurtz; talent contest, E trid Geraghty, Coral Schmeichel; chaperone. Mrs. June Orem, Mrs Donna Nicholson, Mrs. Marguerite Breithaupt. , Telephone The appropriations committee also dropped its annual blockbust er on Kennedy's continuing drive to build fallout shelters not only in federal structures but also in schools, hospitals and other non profit institutions over the nation. It voted funds to continue loca tion and marking of . potential shelter spaces in existing build ings, public and private, b u t banned further funds for stocking these spaces and denied every cent sought for new shelter con struction. offensive on all fronts. It has be come obvious to all observers that the war has taken an im portant turn toward a certain and meaningful victory." Diem said victory In Vict Nam will be "concrete proof that the Communists are not invincible, even in the domain of guerrilla warfare where they are reputed to be masters." Zablocki arrived Sunday with seven other members of the Far East subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Zab-I locki is chairman of the subcom mittee, which will spend three davs in Viet Nam They came a day alter Diem s dispute with the Buddhists, which U.S. officials tear will Hurl tne1 war effort, dramatically returned to public attention with the suicide by fire of a sixth Buddhist priest. Three U.S. newsmen were Deal- en by Vietnamese policemen -while attempting to report and I ul..iAnnl. .U. mt.lr.iA 'r Ca!nnn'e Sales Tax In Voting will swing to support of a sales tax." Morgan termed the lax vote "more important than any other vote cast by the people in Ore gon." He strongly defended the stale s $404 million general fund budget. He said tax increases were nec essary because of "a 60 per cent hike in higher education students, and a 23 per cent increase in primary and high school enroll ments since 1960. He said the budget adopted by the legislature averaged a 10.3 per cent increase the smallest in the past 10 years. He reminded the partisan au dience that "the legislature c u t J15.5 million from the governor's budget recommendations. Then legislators were accused by the governor of wielding a m e a t axe." He charged "talk of 25 per cent across the board cuts if the tax measure is defeated is just talk. Such cuts cannot he made." ' " ...... I aaJMl i aai a a . WORKING STAFF These central committee members ley the ground work for thaj 27th annuel Klamath Basin Potato Festival to be held at Merrill, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26. Seated are James Chance, left, dance chairman, and Robert Petrik, Lions Club president and festival general chairman. Standing, left to right, are Lawion Kan dra, potato exhibits chairman; Don Crawford, parade chairman; Mural Long, banquet chairman, and Bill Gaisar, in charge of the free barbecue. The festival is sponsored by the Merrill Lioni Club. Illys Reeves Is festival fecratary. TU 4-8111 No. 7595 The actions highlighted com mittee approval of a $13 billion appropriation bill carrying funds to finance 26 so-called "indepen dent offices" and agencies of the government in the 12 months that started July 1. The committee claimed to have cut the measure by $1.5 billion, or 10.6 per cent below the Presi dent's budget requests. Some of the claimed cuts were real and some reflected optimistic book keeping devices. Tlie Federal Communications Supported Forces Offensive them, John Sharkey of the Na-i tional Broadcasting Company, was introduced to the congress men on their arrival by U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. "They had a perfect right to be there and they were beaten up by police," Lodge said of the newsmen. Sharkey, of Detroit, Mich., was wearing a bandage on his head. He had spent Saturday night in a U.S. dispensary after having1 eight stitches taken in his scalp wound. The other newsmen at tacked were Grant Wolikill of NBC and David Halberstam of the New York Times. U.S. Embassy officials said JFK Signs WASHINGTON (UPD - Presl dent Kennedy today signed pa-la statement, pers formally ratifying the nuclear! Kennedy was flanked by mem- test ban treaty with a vow that if it fails it will not be our doing." And even if its fails," the President said, "we shall not re- gret" having signed the treaty which he called "a message ofl hope for all the world. The President pledged the Unit ed States to "the letter and pirit" of the treaty outlawing all but underground tests. He urged others to do the same. But he vowed the United Stales 'can and must keep our vigi lance" under terms of the treaty, which has been signed by more than 100 nations since it first was signed by the United States, Rus sia, and Great Britain in Moscow in early August, Kennedy signed four copies- one for each of the governments of the three original signers of the treaty and one to be put in the U.S. National Archives. He signed the first copy at 10:04 a.m.. EDT in the historic Treaty Room of the White House. Kennedy said that in the (irst decade of nuclear energy there has been fear and some hope about how the awesome power would be used. "Today fear is a little less Weather AGRICULTURAL RORICAST Kami! autlook lair food with vari able canditlont imxI flva day. Abava nermal tamparaturaa and abova normal prtclpllatlon In rocurrlnf ahowtry ao rledi motlly attar Wadnatday. Hard fraaia llkaly aarly Tuaaday momlna. Commission FCC got the $150, 000 it wanted to set in motion a new emergency communications net that will enable the President, or an authorized agent, to com municate instantly with the popu lace over up to 1,700 AM radio stations. A $60 million request by the Fed eral Aviation Agency to press work on a $1 billion supersonic passenger plane was approved in tact. Funds also were granted for construction of new federal build ings in 27 cities. Action Lodge has received no reply from the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry to his verbal protest over the at tack. (In related developments, the Vietnamese issue was scheduled for debate today at the United Nations General Assembly, where diplomatic sources reported Diem as government was prepared to admit observers from other nations to study its Buddhist problem. (In a New York television inter view, Diem's outspoken sister-in- law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, re peated her charges that junior U.S. officials in Viet Nam are "betraying" official policies.) Test Pact - ihope a little greater," he said in bars of Congress, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other mem bers of the administration in volved in the long process of negotiation and ratification, in cluding Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman, the U.S. nego tiator in the test ban talks in Mos cow. Senate Republican Leader Ever ett Dirksen, 111., whose Senate speech in favor of ratification helped overcome some of the Sen ate opposition to the treaty, was among those receiving the IS pens used in the ceremony. Kennedy said that what the fu ture will bring in the nuclear field "no one of us will know." But he said that even if the limited treaty is to succeed all nations must keep both the letter and spirit of the agreement "If it fails, it will not be our doing," he said. The pact goes into effect Thurs day when the three countries that drew it up deposit their rati fication documents in each other's capital. - Kennedy said that and even If it fails we shall not regret" hav ing signed it. The Senate voted, 80-19. on Sept. 24 to ratify the treaty.
