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U.Or OR8.LIBSARY HED3PAPBR SECTION obm.rci-.am Momtm 01V. EuaenEtOBea cow. la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Tlie big news today? Let's put it this way? There isn't anything in it that people with weak hearts need to be afraid of. Perhaps the most interesting story in today's news concerns "what is known in the news as Exercise Big Lift. It will send 14.000 Army tank troops to West Germany in more than 200 Air Force transports. An ad vance party of 440 went over on Saturday. Heading across the Atlantic at the same time will be a 116 plane composite air-strike force numbering about 1500 men. This strike force will provide air sup port for the armored tank troops in maneuvers after the troop lift is complete. The purpose of I he exercise is to show the world that the United Slates can put a striking force of 16,000 Army and Air Force men, with supporting air craft, into Europe within 72 hours. Why is that so important? The BIG THING is that it promises the outdating of OC CUPYING armies. To make it work effectively, of course, there will have to be BASES Uiere for the t r o o p s when they arrive. But the bas es won't have to be so heavily manned. And- The bases can be largely manned by our allies in Europe. This system of AIRLIFTING military forces could mean that the time is near when the U.S., as the most powerful and the most advanced nation in t h e world, will no longer need to keep a HUGE military establish ment (at great cost to U.S. tax payers, and with drastically un favorable effects on our balance of payments) in the foreign countries that are friendly to us and to our way of life. The lift, of course, will cost a lot of money. But what it will cost is in finitesimal in comparison with the cost of keeping big military forces overseas for years and years. So 'You see Modern progress offers even opportunities for SAVING MON EY FOR THE TAXPAYERS. ' That would be something. More news that doesn't blow your hat off: Yugoslavia's Tito is still in the United States. He got bitten by a flu bug and so far hasn't been able to get OMt to the Far West but it's barely possible that we may be able to survive that dis appointment. He has invilcd our JFK to come to Yugoslavia for a return visit, and it isn't improbable that the invitation will be ac cepted. Question: Do you reckon all this inter national visiting around is worth what it costs the taxpayers? It's hard to say. If such a visit STOPPED A WAR FROM HAPPENING, it would be worth while. ' However It's quite unlikely that 1 h e U.S. and Yugoslavia will ever go to war. Yugoslavia is a little too small for us to jump on un less the Yugoslavs insulted us in some unforgivable way and (Continued on Page 4) - ..-e". am J X, - . .... r ;. M lift VISITS PRINCETON Carrying camtra with hit hat and gloves. Yuqoslav President Tito leaves the Waldorf Astoria Hotel for a visit to Princeton University, escorted by State Department Chief of Protocol Angler 8iddl Dud. Tito will tour Plasma Physics lab. UPI Telephoto Weather Klamath Palis, Tulelake ain lake view Mostly cloudy wilt) showery pe riod! through Tuesday. Iowa tonight U-4S. Hnhs Tuesday SI - . Gusty southerly winds s-is miles par hour. High yesterday M Low this morning as High year ago , si Low year ago 31 Preclp. past 14 hours .01 Since Jan. t 7.19 Same period last year I4.SI L - tiL l&nfcwtt Ml IMOU cut I 1,1 Si I I I I MENACES COAST Hurricane Ginny, the seventh tropical storm of the season, sprang up in the Atlantic about 90 miles off the coast of North Carolina with top winds reaching 85 miles an hour and threatens to move inland against coastal areas. UPI Telephoto East Coast Menaced By Hurricane Ginny CAPE HATTERAS. N. C. (UP1 Hurricane Ginny stalled 100 miles off the North Carolina coast today and bat tered a destroyer escort adrift with 10 persons aboard with howling winds and 40-to-30-foot seas. Winds of about 90 miles per hour were reported near the cen ter of the storm, seventh of the season and the first to threaten the eastern coast of the United States. Hurricane winds of 75 miles an hour extended out 60 miles in all directions from the cen ter of tlie storm, which boiled up Sunday night and sent gale winds and high tides crashing against North Carolina's storied Outer Banks. A late Washington .Weather Bureau advisory located Ginny about 100 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras. "' . ' - In this same vicinity the dis abled destroyer escort USS Fogg was adrift after its tow rope snapped two days ago. Ships and planes searched through blinding rain for the stricken vessel. "With just 10 men aboard they're probably just doing their best to hang onto the rails in 40-to-50 - foot seas," a Coast Guard rpokesman at Ports mouth, Va., said. Storm Moves Slowly "Hurricane Ginny is expected to move very slowly during the next 12 hours, probably towards the east-northeast about 5 miles per hour. Intensity should re main about tlie same during the next 12 to 24 hours," the Weath er Bureau said. Gale force winds raked the Outer Banks but the hurricane wise inhabitants of the sand spits off the North Carolina coast refused to move out un til the hurricane took on a more definite pattern of move ment. United Press International staff photographer Joseph Hollo way Jr. reported from Manteo, N. C. that strong winds almost toppled the phone booth from which he was talking. Price Tea Cents 14 Pages Heavy surf pounded the silvery dunes along the Dare County coast early today. Wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour were reported in the Nags Head area. Ship Is Helpless The Fogg, a decommissioned destroyer escort, was bouncing helplessly in the hurricane with its engines and most of its equip ment not operating. Two ships and two airplanes were in tlie area searching for the vessel. They were hampered by the heavy rain which cut visibility to zero. Tides from the Virginia Capes southward along the North Caro lina coast were expected to con tinue 2 to 3 feet above normal today and tonight with some flooding at time of high tides, the Weather Bureau said. Rough . heavy pounding - surf along the outer coast will con tinue to cause beach erosion. Red China Seat Denied UNITED N A T I O N S, N. Y. (UPI) The General Assembly today rejected Albania's bid to seat Red China in place of the Chinese Nationalists by a vote of 57-41 with 12 abstentions. The margin in favor of retain ing the Chiang Kai-shek regime as China's legal U.N. represent ative was two votes greater than last year. The wecklong debate on the China representation issue wound up with a new attack on the United States and National ist China by Albania, the only European Communist country on good terms with the Peking regime. The vote was on a resolution sponsored by Albania and Cam bodia to oust the Nationalist re gime and give China's scat to the Chinese Communists. A similar resolution, sponsored by Russia, was defeated last year by 56-42 vole with 12 absten tions. . The percentage of members present and voting in favor of the Taipei government rose to 57.9 per cent, the strongest ma jority in the assembly for the Nationalists since 1939. Britain. Denmark. Norway and Sweden joined the solid Communist support of Red China's seating, together with a mixed representation of the Afro-Asian bloc led by India, In donesia and Pakistan. Widow Named To Legislature ROSEBURG i UPI' -Mrs. Elizabeth Kelsay of Roscburg today was appointed to the Ore gon House of Representatives from DouRlas County, succeed ing her late husband, W. O. (Bum Kelsay. Kelsay was killed in an auto crash Oct. 4 north of Klamath Falls as he was returning from a legislative hearing. The appointment was made by the County Court. Mrs. Kel say was recommended for tlie job earlier by the Douglas Coun ty Democratic Central Commit tee. She served as secretary for her husband in previous legisla tive sessions. U.S. Readies Giant Troop Airlift As Test Of Troubleshooter Plan FT. HOOD, Tex. (UPD - The United States assembled troops, fliers and planes from Texas to Maine today to show the world that it can put 16.000 Army and Air Force men with supporting aircraft in Germany, within 72 hours. The project, whose code-name is Operation "Big Lift," begins Pure Gospel Requested By Bishop VATICAN CITY (UPD-Ecu-mcnical Council fathers today heard an eloquent plea from a native Afiican bishop against colonialism under the guise of religion. Archbishop Raymond Tchidim bo of Conakry, Guinea, told the fathers, "We want only one thing, tlie pure Gospel. We do not want to be colonials of any one but Christ." The African archbishop pro tested religious colonialism dur ing a debate on the place of the layman in the Catholic Church. He indicated that international Catholic organizations often feel the necessity to try to dominate the native laymen working for the church in missionary lands. The debate followed the first of a series of votes on reforms of the breviary, the book from which priests say their required daily prayers. The fathers approved the first of two amendments to the docu ment on the breviary, which is the fourth chapter of a liturgy draft debated during the coun cil's opening session last fall. Today's two amendments, overwhelmingly approved, dealt with insertions in the text say ing that the priestly work of the church is reflected in daily prayers and stressing the sim ilarity between the priests' prayers and those of Christ. A liturgy commission mem ber, Bishop Joseph Martin of Nicolct, Canada, reported on the 13 amendments before the voting and explained the com mission's efforts "to arrive at some workable proposal to bring about reforms in the Divine Of fice." Voting will continue Tuesday on the Divine Office, which is the technical name for the pray ers in the breviary, when amendments come up for letting priests say the prayers in their own language instead of Latin and for a general shortening of the breviary. Archbishop Tchidimbo spoke forcefully about the colonial problem, which he said was not so much political today as re ligious in some areas. He urged Catholic organiza tions not to develop "dominat ing attitudes" in directing and helping the apostolate of a coun try. The African bishop said times have changed and native bis hops have taken over the whole responsibility for the church in many areas. They do not wel come organizations which, under the guise of bringing help, try to superimpose their own plans. Civil Rights Bill, Tax Slice May Be Postponed Until 1964 WASHINGTON (UPH - Con gress with only 10 weeks re maining in this session contin ued to search today for a way to pull itself out of its 10-month lethargy. Lawmakers, who normally adjourn by September, have been in session since January, and are beginning to wonder if they will have a vacation be fore the second session of the 88th Congress starts. Rumors of "understandings" by which either taxes or civil rights would be postponed until 14 have circulated for weeks. So far. all have been denied by party leaders. The House now hopes to have its omnibus civil rights bill out of committee in about two weeks, and the Senate Finance Committee Is proceeding with KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, one minute after midnight to night when a C135 jet transport takes off with 70 men from the 2nd "Hell on Wheels" Armored Division in it. The 2nd Division w ill supply 13.000 of the troops. Transport planes will take off from four air bases at intervals ranging from 35 minutes to an hour until a total of 14,500 troops-tankers and infantrymen from Fort Hood and artillery men from Fort Sill, Okla., are in Germany. To Hare Support The moment the first C135 takes off from Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Air Force support planes will start taking off for Europe from Dow and Loring Air Force Base in Maine and Myrtle Beach AFB, S.C. The Air Force contribution to "Big Lift" is 1,500 men. The support planes, including about 100 rocket-firing jet fight ers, will cover the 2nd division when it tries to stop an "at tack" on West Germany by an enemy division. Another U.S. Division already Policy Shift Seen In Troop Airlift WASHINGTON (UPI)-Opora-tion Big Lift that begins tonight is more than just a troop exer cise. It is a dramatic demonstra tion of a new phase in U.S. de fense strategy that promises to permit reductions in both American forces and expendi tures, overseas. Big Lifti which involves The movement of 16,000 troops from the United States to Germany within 72 hours, is expected to be followed next year by sim ilar exercises in the Pacific and Middle East. The significance of the airlift was pointed up by Deputy De fense Secretary Roswell L. Gil patric in a major policy speech Algerians Add Troops ALGIERS (UPl)-Comman-decred private planes flew three battalions of fresh Algerian troops Sunday to the disputed bordor area where the army is fighting a sporadic, undeclared border war with Morocco. No fighting has been reported since Friday, but Algeria charged Uiat Moroccan fighter planes crossed the border Sun day and forced an Algerian army helicopter to land in Mo rocco. (Moroccan authorities said five of Hie nine men aboard the helicopter forced down at t h e border hamlet of Ain Choucer were Egyptian officers. The nine wore civilian clothes, but at least one was armed with a submachine gun, the Moroccans said.) extended tax bill hearings. But predictions now are that neither measure will make it In Ihe next ten weeks. With time out for Thanksgiving, Veterans Day and other events, the dw in dling session is viewed by many as holding too little time for final action on the tax bill. There also is some question whether civil rights legislation, even if the Senate gives it the go-ahead over taxes, could pass belore the new year. Other congressional news: College Aid: A lengthy delay seemed likely for final congres sional passage of a bill to au thorize about 1400 million year in federal grants and loans for public and private non-prolit coilcgcs and universi ties, including those controlled by a religious group. Both the MONDAY. OCTOBER SI, 1963 in Europe will play the role of attacker. In addition to the jet fighters, 42 other planes including recon naissance air craft and C130 cargo planes with mechanics and repair facilities will fly to Germany. The troop-carrying transport planes will take off from Berg strom AFB, James Connally AFB at Waco, Tex., Sheppard AFB. Wichita Falls, and Gray Army Air Base, nest door to Ft. Hood. Men Getting Prepared Second Division men assem bled in battalion areas at Ft. Hood today, checking equip ment and packing duffelbags. The personnel carriers they will use are already in Germany. The first units will start mov ing out by dusk at 10 p.m. EDT from Ft. Hood to the air bases. The troops will move out, board planes and take off by a sched ule as precise as that which governs the launching of a man into space. When the troops arrive in Ger many, they will have a couple Saturday night in Chicago at the annual conference of United Press International editors end publishers. Gilpalric said national de fense was entering the "new phase" when shifts could be made in overseas deployments without impairing military strength or support for U.S. Al lies. Calling attention to Operation Big Lift, he said the exercise "will demonstrate our ability to project our military power far more quickly over far larger distances than has ever been tlie case in the past." "By employing such a mulli base capacity, the United States should be able to make useful reductions in its heavy over seas military expenditures," he declared. In a question session follow ing his speech Gilpatric took is sue with a magazine article by former President Dwlght D. Eisenhower saying that one di vision i n Europe is enough and that "is inconceivable to me to day," The trip-wire concept calls for use of tacticle nuclear weapons to meet any Soviet at tack. "For tlie foreseeable future," Gilpatric said in his speech, "the U.S. will maintain both large overseas deployments and 'Significant capabilities to rein force such military power with great rapidity. However, some shifts in tlie form our military presence has taken in recent decades are beginning to be practicable." The defense official said that the United States now has the ability to deliver large quanti ties of s u p p o rt abroad quickly by air and could send combat planes over oceans "in no more time than it took pre viously to deploy planes sta tioned on rear bases overseas." Senate and House passed the bill, but tlie Senate added a provision to allow any taxpayer to block, at least temporarily, the disbursement of funds lo any college by filing a federal suit challenging its constitution ality. Civil Rights: The administra tion was under critical fire from strong Republican and Democratic civil rights support ers fur seeking to dilute civil rights legislation in the House. Sens. Paul H. Douglas, D-III.. Jacob K. Javits. R-N.Y., and Clifford P. Case, R-N.J., at tacked Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy's request of the House Judiciary Committee to tone down Its civil rights bill. The committee's bill was much stronger than President Kenne dy's request. Telephone of days to get tanks out of stor age. An advance party of 472 men arrived in Germany Satur day to establish communications and set up a headquarters. It will take from 10 hours and 25 minutes to 31 hours and 25 mintcs for troops to reach Eu rope, depending on the type of plane they ride and the route it takes. U.S. Army Troops Roll On Berlin BERLIN (UPD-A U.S. Army convoy rolled over the East German Autobahn today while troops of tlie American garri son in Berlin were called out on a dawn alert. Today's convoy was a small one with only eight men in four trucks. All were considered crewmen, not passengers. The Soviet checkpoint officers never have tried to make tlie crews of allied military ve hicles dismount for a head count and did not do so today, an Army spokesman said. The convoy was the first of several this week which will demonstrate tlie U.S. right to use the 110-mile highway be tween West Berlin and West Germany. Most of the convoys were ex pected to be small ones in which the dismounting question on which the Soviets held up British and American convoys recently will not , arise, in formed sources said. Hence, any Soviet challenge on the access routes would have to be on different grounds. Allied officials are watching all convoy movements closely to see if such a challenge will be made, these sources said. Today's convoy drove from Berlin to West Germany and passed the Soviet checkpoint at the West Berlin end of the Auto bahn in 20 minutes, an Army spokesman said. Other U.S. troops were called out of barracks in full combat kit at 5 a.m. today. Troops of one battalion manned posts they would de fend in case the Communists used armed force on the city. Barry Raps JFK Policy SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (UPI) Sen. Barry Goldwater, addressing a National Newspa per Week observance over tlie weekend, accused the Kennedy administration of endangering the nation's security through what he called "flagrant news management." The Arizona Republican is sued the accusation at a News paper Week meeting sponsored by the San Bernardino Sun Telegram. He specifically attacked the administration's handling of the announcements of four recent international developments tlie nuclear test ban treaty, the deal to sell surplus wheat to Russia, the United Nations res olution banning nuclear weap ons in outer space, and tlie Geneva disarmament plan. Terming the U.N. resolu tion "the most flagrant mis management of all because It made us close the door to the real military use of space," tlie potential GOP presidential can didate said U.S. agreement to any of the four events should never have been given without more bargaining to this nation's advantage. Goldwater said the American people would have demanded changes in all four of these in ternational developments had III known abuut them far enough in advance. But he said the announcements came ton late for opposition to be mm. tcred. At a news conference earlier in the day, Goldwater said he has in Ihe past advocated U.S. withdrawal from the United Na tions "I'd have to say that at best I'm lukewarm about the U.N. now." TU 4-8111 No. 7607 K jfS SOUTH i? Jf VIETNAM tfHif ioc a4m yAm 12 Vietnamese soldiers and wounded 13 U.S. officers and men in fightinq near Loe Minh village (shown by cross), 50 miles southwest of Saigon. The aciion took place on Sunday. UPI Telephoto' Guerrillas Kill 42; Wound 13 Americans SAIGON, South Vict Nam (UPI) Communist guerrillas killed 42 Vietnamese soldiers and wounded 13 U.S. officers and men in one of tlie biggest battles of the war, U.S. mili tary spokesmen announced Sun day. . The Communists lost 30 dead in tlie fighting 150 miles south west of Saigon. Vietnamese wounded numbered 83. T h e American casualties eight of ficers and five enlisted men was the highest number incur red in a single battle since U.S. advisers began aiding Vietna mese forces in the fullscale pro gram that began in 1961. The military spokesmen with held word of the battle 24 hours. The Communists attacked Satur day morning, driving against a government force twice as large as . their estimated . battalion strength. The battle was not fought on the usual hit-and-run guerrilla plan. The Communists made a frontal attack cutting down government troops with ma chinegun fire and pinning them down in rice paddies. Most of the Americans wound ed were pilots and crewmen of Rockefeller Tours West ALBANY, N.Y. (UPP-Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller takes his political thermometer to the Far West Tuesday following a weekend appearance there by Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Arlz., his major rival in the unofficial race for the GOP presidential nomination. Rockefeller criticized Gold water while on a political pulse taking tour of New Hampshire over tlie weekend for speaking out against tlie United Nations, the U.S. foreign aid program and the World Bank. y- ' ) - LOSES LEGS James Small, 27, It wheeled Into mr geney ward of Letttrmen General Hospital in Sen Fren. citco. He suffered lost of both legs end part of hit loft hand when a fishing boat plowed into group of swim men crossing the lay to Sauialito. UPI Telephoto Weather AGRICULTURAL FOR1CAST Harvest outlook only fab So toad this week with above SM tonal tem peratures and recurring showery pe riods Tuesday and again about Thursday. guar aircraft ferrying troops to the battle area and striking at the Communist -positions. The guer rillas shot down one troop car rier helicopter and damaged a twin-engine B26 bomber so bad ly it crashed while attempting to land. They hit a total of 14 aircraft. The Communists incurred most of their casualties in air strikes. They withdrew without difficulty at nightfall, military sources said. Swim Star Loses Legs In Mishap SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A former swimming star and honor student at the University of Cali fornia lost both legs and part of his left hand Sunday when he was caught in the whirling propeller of a fishing boat in San Francisco Bay. The victim, James Small, 27, lay close to death at Letterman General Hospital today as doc tors gave him numerous trans fusions of blood to save his life. The accident occurred near Alcatraz Island as Small and 11 other members of the Dolphin Club competed in a long - dis tance swim across the bay. Tlie 32-foot fishing boat, the Pacific Dawn, cut through the group of swimmers at an esti mated speed of 12 knots. Its propeller sliced off Small's right leg above the knee. Doctors later amputated tlie left leg, al so above the knee, and Small's left thumb. Small graduated from the Uni versity of California with honors in 1960 and later served in tlie Marine Corps. He set school rec ords in the 4O0-and-l,500 meter free style races while on the swimming team. , viae . -m. 5 T isV V
