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Macmillan Surrenders Leadership In Britain BLACKPOOL, England IUP1'- Prime Minister Harold Mac-mil lan today surrendered leader ship of the ruling Conservative party for the coming general elections and said he could not hope to be prime minister "(or any extended period." He did not resign as prime minister, although that action was indicated for the future. In a letter issued from his bed ... in a London hospital where he underwent a successful prostate gland operation this morning. Macmillan urged the Conserva tive party to choose a new lead er. Macmillan s decision was con tained in a letter to Foreign Sec retary Lord Home. It was read to the 4.200 dele gates to the annual Conservative party meeting. They were stunned by the announcement. Macmillan's letter said that even if the operation proved suc cessful, "it is clear that I will need a considerable period of convalescence." "I would not be able to face all that is involved in a long elec toral campaign," he said. "Nor could I hope to fulfill the tasks of prime minister for any extend ed period, and I have so informed the queen. However, a Buckingham Pal ace spokesman said: "He has not resigned as premier." ine ettect ot Ins action ap peared to be that he was turning rover the reins of government to Deputy Prime Minister R. A. (Rab) Butler. The 69-year-old prime minis ter's letter was sent lo Lord Home in the foreign secretary's capacity as president of the Na In The- Day's JVews By FRANK JENKINS The big wheat deal in a nut shell: We're selling Russia about $250 million worth of the stuff. We're selling it at the world market price, which is about $1.30 a bushel. At $1.30 a bushel, the . sale of $250 million worth, of "wheat would translate into a lit tle better than 192 million bush--els. Getlins rid of 192 million bush els would cat up a little better , than one-fifth of the present U.S. SURPLUS, which stands at a lit tle better than 900 million bush els. Which is to say: Russia gets the wheat which she needs to feed her hungry peo ple. We gel rid of about 20 per cent of our wheat surplus which we need to do. It costs us about $300 million just to STORE our surplus. According to this morning's dis patches, the cost of MAKING the deal would he somewhat in ex cess of $113 million, since this wheat exports at about 60 cents a bushel. And President Kennedy says this morning: "The sale of the wheat for shout $230 million and the addi tional income for American ship ping I which w ill carry the w heat to Russia) will REDUCE OUR BALANCE OF TRADE DEFICIT and provide income for Ameri cans." Big question as to Kioosh and the wheat deal that has just been negotiated: Are we doing him dirt? Or are we saving his bacon by providing him with the wheat with which to feed his people. Anyway We get rid of a lot of wheal that was costing us a lot of money in the way of storage bills. TJi Figure it out if you can. It's a weird world we're living in. There are limes when it almost looks like the more you lose the more you make. Treafy Goes Into Effect WASHINGTON UPI-The nu clear test ban treaty banning all but underground explosions for mally went into effect today with ratification ceremonies in Wash ington, London and Moscow. Secretary of State Dean Rusk Soviet Ambassador Anatnly F Dobrynin and British Ambassa dor Sir David Ormsby Gore ex changed ratification documents her and expressed hope for fur ther measures to ease the cold war. Similar ceremonies took place in Moscow and London. , tional Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. Macmillan's leadership has been under attack by some rank- and-file Conservatives since the Profumo sex-and-securily scandal first rocked the government last June. 2 Courses Open If Bill Defeated Editor's Note This is the fourth In a series of articles on the proposed Income Tax Measure to be voted on October IS. Two obvious courses of action are available in the event the voters defeat the proposed income tax bill on October 15. The two courses include the general fund budget, and the second would be the governor calling the Legislature back into session to deal with the problem. There is no question that a great amount of chaos and con sternation will exist if the hill, designed In raise an additional $64 million in revenues, is turned down by the people. The trend of the voting may well have an effect on just where and how much stale general fund There would also be considerable difference of opinion on the meaning of the "no" vote, if There will be those who will voting against the size of the budget but merely protesting the fact that the Legislature had moved to eliminate the deduction of federal income taxes on state returns. Many have termed this a tax on a tax" and opposition action. This move, actually, will raise almost $50 million of the $64 million in increased revenue. Another $14 million comes from the 'speed-up" of state taxes withheld in the stale have been protesting employer with monthly rather than So there will be those who would maintain that a no vote is merely a protest vote against There are others who would protest vote against the increase in the budget and against the size of state spending, in general. A whopping "no" vote would tend to bear out this latter think ing while a bare majority "no" vote would tend to bear out the former theory. The Governor and the Legislature would have to carefully con sider just what the voters meant and what they wanted. Governor Hatfield would have some course of action open to him. The Attorney General has ruled ......I . f .-J i- scnooi support iiuiu. i inis can umy He would nave to cnecx me million' 10 see wutrie uuuKeia wuiu ue lui. ntav, uc uu,u vucvi. and probably find that the Liquor Commission had recently increased its revenue by $750,000. If the federal government reduces income taxes, the state would stand to benefit by an increase in state income taxes because taxpayers would to deduct. - However, it appears an impossibility for the Governor to make even sizeable cuts in state budgets without some wholesale slashing of programs. What cuts he could make would De in nigner education, puonc welfare and correctional and mental institutions plus minor cuts in Henartmental budgets. It would appear almost a certainty that the Governor would summon the Legislature back into tax bill is defeated. The Legislature, then, could cut Some of the areas that would slashp. include the basic school million. This fund jumped from $120.6 million to $1.15.1 million under the last Legislature, an increase This would be one of the tirst school districts could he thrown the lost funds by agreeing lo additional expenses. Some school districts, sucn as mosc in mis aica, nave an "pl ating surplus at the end of the fiscal year which can range upward from $40,000. This would tend to reduce basic school support funds at the have to operate for a short time next fiscal year.' It is probable that cuts would be made in tne operating Duogei tor instruction of the stale Svstem of Higher Education. In turn. the state board would then have lo pare its student admission load as well as raising tuitions and fees as necessity dictated. Since, aeain. this is an area where some culs could be re deemed by action of the agency involved, this would be one of the first areas affected by any legislative cut. Public Welfare would also come in for a sizeable slash. The nresent budoet calls for an outlay only $41.9 million of this comes from the general fund. The balance comes from county and federal funds. Each dollar slashed by the Legislature here, tnougn, would re sult in about a $2.50 reduction in total revenues. These would appear to he the ernor or the Legislature would cut sary by the people voting down the Next Further speculation on of a "no" vote on October 15. Kennedy, Gromyko Review 'Frictions' WASHINGTON UPI - Presi dent Kennedy meets today with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for a review of East- West "frictions designed to les sen the danger of war by mis calculation. The session will be their first since the dramatic confrontation a year ago at which Gromyko stoutly maintained that Soviet weapons in Cuba were purely "defensive, unaware that Ken nedy already had photographic1 proof of the missile buildup. The meeting was scheduled fori 4 D.m. EDT. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was holding a warmup session with Gromyko earlier in the day- Rusk and Gronuko held several long talks earlier this month in New York. Kennedy told his news confer ence Wednesday he believed that "what has happened" aince his Oct. 18. 13. meeting with Gro myko "will lessen the danger of a military clash." Reports from the conference said Butler had a slight edge among possible successors to Macmillan. The next election must be held within a year, and current spec ulation is that it probably will come in- May or June. Governor making cuts in the state budgets are cut. the balloting turns out that way. maintain that the public was not has always been strong to this from employes. Many employers this since it would saddle the the present quarterly returns. these provisions. maintain that a no vote was a that he could not cut the basicvjc jrnruj t,.m nnH in l- j u.. .u. T v ue uune uy uie icftiaimuic. oaiance 01 me general iuna Mmis(.ile fi,.jng competions today. not have the larger federal taxes special session in tne event me where it desires. very likely be singled out for support fund which totals $135.1 ol about I5 minion. areas cut ny tne Legislature since responsibility of replacing these property taxes or cutting scnooi somewhat the effect ot a loss nl state level. However, they might on warrants, redeemable in the of about $106.8 million. However, major areas that either the Gov in the event this becomes neces tax proposal on October 15. what might happen in the wake ' He obviously had in mind the forced withdrawal of the nuclear missiles from Cuba, relaxation of Red pressure on Berlin, and signing of tlie limited nuclear test ban treaty. The President pointed out, how ever, there still were many im portant issues on which Russia and the United States differed. As we don't want these dis putes and frictions to escalate into military clashes, it is worth while to have consultations," he said. The Rusk-Gromyko meetings a! ready have shown that despite! the more cordial East-nest cli mate, tlicre is no foreseeable prospect of a major break through on such explosive issues as Berlin, Germany and Euro pean security. Both aides, in fact, have shown a willingness to slecr away from the more flammable problems In an effort to avoid a turn for the worse In relations at this time U.or ORCLIBRART COUP. NSisfAPSR secrioN OEN.Rer.AM DOCUHEWfS CIV. Klcmtlh Polls, TultUht and Uktvitw Vhbl cloudiness, cool and quit windy with Hneds of stwwrtr tMiiht and PrMsy. Lows tMiliht M to 41, hijh Friday fo 5. Sooth to wuthwtM winds Hiflh vwttrdty Low thia morning 41 High ytar aw 44 Low ytar ago 32 Prtclp. last 14 hours .w Sine Jan. 1 t.U Sam period year aga li t; tafam MODEL FINISHED Mario Martin, planning assistant in the Community Planning Office, is shown with his model of downtown Klamath Falls, which was finished Wednes day. The model, done to the scale of one inch equals 100 feet, Is designed to aid planners in their studies of the city. The model was several months in preparation by Locals Drop In Firing Competition TYNDALL AFB, Fla. Kingsley PioM'c finhtpr cniiaHl-nn nf Flrtt ..rwi "I third place in the William Tell as the worldwide contest among interceptor fighter squadrons en tered its fourth day. Leading in the competitions! which ends Oct. 114 is the IK. I Sawyer Air Base, Michigan. The Kingsley Field squadron added 725 points to its total yes- lerday in an intruder shoot, and now is scheduled for two other! events before it bows out of the competition. An intruder shoot isj an event jn which jet fighter pilots in the air work with radar ground crews to seek out flying electronic targets called drones. A Kingsley Field ingnt mission has been rescheduled a second time and is to go on tonight. The squadron will conclude its part in the competitions with a weap ons loading contest sometime lat er this week. U.S. Chemist Wins Nobel Peace Prize OSLO, Norway lUPD Ameri can chemist Linus Pauling was awarded the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize and the 1!63 prize was di vided between the International Red Cross Committee and the Red Cross League, the Norwegian No bel Prize Committee announced today. It was the second Noiwi 1'rize for the 62-year-old Pauling who was born in Portland, Ore., on Feb. 28, 1901. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The peace prize was worth $51,- 440 lo Pauling. The 1963 prize, to be divided equally between the two Red Cross bodies, was worth $53,000. The peace prizes and olficial diplomas will be delivered lo the winners at the traditional Nobel ceremony at Oslo University Dec. 10, the day commemorating tne death of Alfred Nobel. The Nobel committee, as usual, gave no reason (or lis decisions today. The committee Is ap pointed hy the Norwegian Nation al Assembly, but operates entirely independently. Its meetings are always behind: closed doors, and no names un der consideration for the prize or reasons for awards are ever given. Pauline peace prize is ine 12th to go In the United States. while the Red Cross has twice be fore received the award. Pauling won the 1962 award to day after the Nohel committee decided last year that there was no sizable recipient. The 1961 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded posinumnusiy to United Nations Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold, who! wa killed In a plane crash while on a peace mission to the Congo.! r Price Ten Cents 32 Pages la Mixed Reactions Greet Wheat Deal WASHINGTON (UPH - Presi-! dent Kennedy's politically explos ive approval of a "one shot" $250 million U. S. wheat sale lo Rus sia won a measure of bipartisan backing today in Congress. But some Republicans, includ ing House GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, questioned tne wisdom, of the move an nounced by the President at his news-eonferencfi1 Wednesday. Sen; Barry M. Goldwater, R-Ariz.,,had urged that the sale be made eon- ditional on withdrawal of Soviet troops and military equipment from Cuba. Kennedy said the sale of 4 mil lion tons (about 150 million bush els) of surplus U. S. wheat j the largest Soviet-American trans- action since the multi - billion - dol - Top Republicans Gather For Sessions In Eugene EUGENE, Ore. (UPI) Na tional Republican leaders began assembling here today for the four-day Western Republican con ference which opens tonight with an Oregon reception. Attention will be focused on Saturday's scheduled speeches by New York Gov. Nelson Rockefel ler and Arizona Sen. Barry Gold- water. The two, possible front runners for the GOP presidential nomina tion, will speak in the 10.000-seat McArthur Court Basketball Pa vilionRockefeller at noon, Gold water at 7 p.m. Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield will iv'" A c l i . rt Cu , .u2 --.4 CHAMBER STARTS NEW YEAR Jim Stilwell, left, was installed president ot the Klamath County Chamber ef Commerce for 1963-64 during the chamber's annual ban quet at the Reamet Country Club last night. Stilwell succeeded outgoing president Jim Monteith, second from riqht. Others are Stary Gangs, gueit speaker, end Mrs. Jim Stilwell. Chamber officers are elected for one-year terms beginning Oct, I. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. i i Martin, who carved each of the buildings from balsa wood. The building sections are removable and tha modal will be covered with a clear plastic shield. Completion of the model Is one of the first stops in the office's study of ways to improve downtown Klamath Falls. With Reds lar lend-lease deals of World War II was a "hopeful sign" that progress toward peace is possi ble. He promised a special re port to Congress on the matter today The President said the govern ment would permit private U. S traders to sell the surplus wheat1 "over th next several months to Russja and her Eastern Euro-' pean -satellites at regular world priccs,-currently-,''about $1.79 bushel. This would be approxl- Lately 55 cerfft a bushel. 1 o w r than government - supported I domestic prices at present. To allow U. S. exporters to buy at the American price and sell at the world price, the gov ernment currently pays an export subsidy of about 55 cents a bush- lel. keynote the conference Friday morning. Hatfield has been men tioned as a vice presidential pos sibility, and as a GOP presiden tial dark horse. Other governors slated to par ticipate include Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma, Robert Smylie of Ida ho, Paul Fannin of Arizona, John Love of Colorado, and Tim Bab cock of Montana. Among U.S. senators expected. in addition to Goldwater. arc John Tower of Texas, Len Jordan of Idaho, Milward Simpson of Wyoming, Gordon Allott of Colo rado, and former Sen. William Knowland of California. THURSDAY, OCTOBER U. 13 Hospital Bid Opening Set For Oct. 24 The opening of bids for the construction of the Presbyterian intercommunity Hospital has1 been deferred from Oct. 17 to p.m., Thursday, Oct. 24. the office of the Intercommunity Hos pital has reported. The opening of bids will lake place in the office of the hospital 313 Main Street, While bidders win await results ot the pro - ceedings in the banquet room ot the Pelican Cafe, it was. said in otner development, It was announced that the dale for the groundbreaking of the $2.7 mil lion, 141-bed hospital had been set or .Nov. 2. The construction of the hospital is being financed through dona-i lions of Klamath Basin residents except for some $1.3 million in federal grants which have been earmarked for the building fund. The grants are in the amounts, of $708,081 from tile Hill-Burton funds and $625,000 from tha Ac celerated Public Works Program Miserable Haul Upsets Thief SAN FRANCISCO (UPI I -A burglar took $29 worth of phonograph records, coins and a table radio from a San Fran cisco flat Tuesday night and left the following typewritten note for his victim: "In all my 30 years as an honest, hardworking burglar, seldom have I cam isici across as miserable a haul as this. You people ought to leave some cigarets around for guests. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Medi tate on this, friends: Every thing which I leave behind isn t even worth stealing. "Til later, Sydney the bur glar." yiwwvwwwvsww1 Witty Americanism Talk Chamber Program; Stilwell Installed "A problem is an opportunity going somewhere to happen,' Stary Gange, platform speaker ex traordinary, told an audience ofi 150 members of the chamber of commerce and their guesls during the 43rd annual chamber banquet held last night at the Reamer Count! y Club. Gange urged his audience lo col lectively work together to convert such problems of Klamath Coun ty into opportunities. In stressing Ihe word "problems he alluded to the various obstacles that face any community seeking progress and development. A prominent alter dinner speak er who has delivered more than 2.000 talks on Americanism since 1950, Gange injected wry witti cisms from his personal experi ences Into hit comments on infla tion, taxes and the ideological Telephone TU 41I1 No. 75M Mk Landslide Sends Water Pouring Over Villages LONGARONE, Italy (UPI) -i More than 3.000 person were feared today to have been swept to their deaths when a massive landslide poured a 300 foot-high wall of water over a dam onto the sleeping villages of an Alpine valley. Millions of tons of water spilled over the lip of the dam Wednes day night, poured into tlie valley, wiped out villages, and caught thousands in their beds. The ef fect of the landslide into the res ervoir behind the dam was like that of a stone dropped into a teacup. The dam itself was not collapsed by the rushing water but a part of its crest on the right side crumbled under the shock of the wave. The concrete structure, highest arch dam in the world, held firm except fori the minor damage along the top, although officials first had be lieved that it had collapsed and hurled tlie water into the valley. The disaster was triggered by the landslide that plopped into the reservoir behind the 860-foot Vajont Dam at 10:43 p.m. (5:43 p.m. EDT) Wednesday. The force of the landslide was i great that it registered on several Italian seismographs as an "earth movement." Officials believed that the shock registered at the observatories was that of the landslide itself, rather than that of an earthquake setting off the disaster. Rescue officials estimated that more than 3,000 persons died in1 half a dozen shattered villages. With a tremendous roar, the 300-foot wall of water 6wept down the ravine In front of the dam and into the Plave Valley. This town, which had 4,700 In ' habitants, was the largest tnhab ited area in the path of the flood. Almost every . building in the town was destroyed. There are more than' 3,0001 persons buried under some (hreel square miles of stone, rocks, dirt and gravel, said Lt. Col. Eros, Orlore, the chief of rescue oper ations. "There is no hope of sur vival for any of them. The few survivors we found have been moved to Verona for attention. We don't need medical supplies because tlicre aren't enough survivors to strain what we already have, but we can use all the bulldozers we can get our hands on. Working parties already had uncovered scores of bodies, al most all of them naked. Police explained that tlie tremendous force of the wator had ripped off any clothes they had been wear ing. It was likely that many of them already were in bed when the disaster struck. Piero Dalmin, a construction worker from Longarone who spent thn night away from home, returned this morning to try to find his sister, Maria. "I can't even find our home," he said. "There is nothing left, not even a landmark I yean rec ognize." He said he doesn't know what happened to his sister. For miles downstream, bodies were being found' buried in a langle of mud, rocks and uproot ed trees. At one point (here were more than 100 dead cows. To complicate matters, it ap- peared the danger of deadly cy. struggle between the U.S. and So viet Union, He defined co-existence as "what the farmer does with a turkey before Thanksgiv ing." The banquet program start ed with an Invocation by Rev R. H. Richardson, First Metho dist Church, and proceeded with the passing of the gavel from out going president Jim Monteith to his successor Jim Stilwell. In accepting the gavel, Stilwell told of a special chamber pro gram titled "Seven by 70," a sev en-point pattern for progress by 1970, which indicated that the chamber was well on Ha way to converting many community "problems into opportunities. Briefly, the seven-point program involves the development of more jobs and greater payrolls: ex pansion and diversification of the local agricultural economy; com munity development; promotion Weather AGRICULTURAL FORICAST UnttHlod wtathor condition wIN ava soma ahowara with austy winds tha naxt coupto af days with a return ta Mr wtathor avar ttta waakaad. Harvest out look fair to good. anide had been added to the tragedy of the flood. The Italian Radio warned people in the area to watch out for the possible poisoning of the water. It said that many con tainers of potassium cyanide were missing and they might have been brbken open In the flood. Destruction, Death Trail Killer Storm MIAMI (UPD - Hurricane Flora, leaving a death toll that may exceed 9.000 and damges of nearly $500 million, churned rap idly today toward eventual death in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters said the twister's 115 mile per hour peak winds posed no threat to land but would push gale winds and heavy 6urf against the British resort island of Bermuda today. Headed on a northeast course - at 25 m.p.h., Flora was located at midnight EDT near latitude 27.0 north, longitude 67.0 west, or 400 miles south-southwest of Ber muda. "She's not dead yet," said a Miami forecaster, "but I would say maybe two days, then the cold air will kill her. , Flora, one of the most devest 3JW ing storms of the 20th century, made her last strike at land Wednesday morning, passing over the island of Mayaguana in the southeastern Bahamas. A Ha ilian seaman was drowned when bis dingy overturned. Reports said 83 m.p.h. winds wreaked some crop damage and blew away a shop and dock, but did no damage to the U. S. mis sile tracking station on the island, 200 miles southeast of Nassau. Hie killer Hurricane opened It death-dealing foray by smashing the tiny island of Tobago off the northern coast of South America early last week, but caused the most damage in a swipe over Haiti and Cuba. Haitian Health Minister Girard Phllippeaux has estimated 2,500 persons are dead or missing in the storm's path and another 2,500 possibly killed. CARE inter national relief agency estimated $100 million in property loss. OREGON October 11 OPEN CLOSI 6:45 6:40 CALIFORNIA October 11 OPEN CLOSI 6:41 6:3$ Highlights of the tourist industry; Improving highway, air and rail transporta tion facilities and services; con tinued participation in public Is sues at the local, state and federal levels; and to work together to implement the program. In commenting on the long range project, Stilwell remarked, "I believe in this area. I believe in it because of our water power, climate, Kingsley Field, the new OTI campus, end our new hos pital. These are merely several of the reasons 1 believe we are on our way, ha added. ui the feature address, Gange reflected on the world situation and then directed his comments to other areas. "When people ask how can vou he so cheerful when the world Is In such a mess, I say that' not i problem. 1 Just read history. Tlie world has always been la mess," he said. Shooting Hours