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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.