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Newspaper Page TexttJ.OF 0RS.U33ART lirSPAHER SECTION CM.Rtr.AMI) DOCUMENTS OTV. cot?, MUTE EVIDENCE Egom Louis, shows shell lodged the coast of Cuba. la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written. Hurricane Ginny. after loafing around for several days in the warm wa ters just off the coast of South ern Florida where, inci dentally, loafing is one of the leading industries has ap parently taken a notion to move. At mid-morning, Miami dis patches report that she has moved away from the nation's space port at Cape Canaveral and is heading in a northwester ly direction that threatens coast al regions of four states North ern Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. Or- The Miami story adds She may change her mind and head for the North Atlantic ocean where the colder water will do her in. As Little Tommy Jinks so sapiently remarked quite a long time ago, "nobody knows what the wevver finks." Hurricanes are a manifesta tion of the weather. Two hurricane questions: 1. What causes "em? 2. How come the U.S. Weather Bureau decided some years ago to name 'cm all for women? According to the weather sharps, a hurricane is a wind storm of such fury that it can tear ships from their anchors, blow large buildings to pieces and raise Ned generally. A hurricane occurs when a mass of warm air breaks through a mass of colder air above and rushes up through the hole thus formed with frightful force. The winds are caused by more air rushing in to get up through the hole. Hurricanes break up and call it quits when they move over colder water which cools off the warmer air that is rushing in to get up through the hole. That's about the long and the fhort of it. II explains why hurricanes fiz zle out when they leave the warmer waters of the south and get over the colder waters to north. The weather professionals add that a hurricane is strongest when it moves over water be cause it doesn't run into objects that could break its force. A hurricane often dies down a short time after it reaches land because mountains and hills slow it down. That takes care of Question No. 1. Now for Question No. 2 how did our Weather Bureau people come to name these destructive manifestations of n a t u r e for WOMEN? That remains a mystery. I suppose cynics will claim that NOBODY knows why bu reaucrats do -vhat they do. Here's I thought: Maybe when the weather bu reau got together a dozen years or so ago and decided that hur ricanes ought to be named they had all been reading Kipling and Sir Walter Scott. Kipling, you know, says in his Female of the Species: "The fe male of the species is more deadly than the male." That takes care of the deadli nes: of the hurricane. But- The hurricane is also unpre dictable. It may do one thin:. r it may do another. So. perhsw, (Continurd n Page 4-AI l ) j ' , J: Maxa, 2nd mate in overhea of the Reynolds Metal Co. shiD SS boom on main deck. The ship was strafed off UPI Telephoto Captain Of Ship Describes Attack CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. (UPI I The captain of an un armed American freighter that was strafed and set fire by planes off the Cuban coast said today all the men. could have done to repel the attack "was throw potatoes." "We didn't have anything to defend ourselves with," said Capt. Gerhard Krause of the ship J. Louis, a U.S. owned ore freighter that sails under Li berian registration. There were no casualties. Krause said the planes illum inated the ship with flares and then made 16 passes before "I stopped counting." Bullets rained down on the ship for an hour, the captain said. Krause said he and two other men were pinned on the bridge. He ordered the rest of the 51 men aboard to remain below decks. He said the ship was at least 13 miles off the Cuban coast when the attack occurred Tues day. The J. Louis was en route from Jamaica to Corpus Christi with 31,500 tons of bauxite (aluminum ore). It docked early today at the Reynolds Metal Co. docks at nearby Gregory, Tex. The only American crew member was W. Fred Thomp son 55, of Portland, Tex. Thirty - seven crewmcmbers were Okinawans. Krause, 54, of Hamburg, Ger many, estimated there were three or four planes involved in the attack. He said he never saw them because they were moving too fast. He said he could not hear any engines to tell whether they were jets or propellor driven. Flares lit the sky 30 minutes before the attack, he said. "I thought it was a U.S. Navy exercise," the captain said. Many of the bullets missed their target, he said, but a fire broke out on the bow of the ship and was extinguished with Good Advice OPORTO. Portugal (UPI Antonio M a r t i n s. 41, com plained to police Wednesday that he lost 105 escudos iW in a card game. Police refused to help and told him to play more carefully the next time. Massive FRANKFURT. Germany 't'PH American Air Force planes ncared the end of Ihcir massive troop-carrying "Opera lion Big Lift" from Texas to Germany today hours ahead of schedule. 'Oir historic air lest of U.S. gljbal :'riking power was ex pected to be completed at 10:40 p.m. 12:40 p.m. PDTl. 8 hours ami 20 minutes under the 72 iicurs that had been allo'ted for the airlift of the entire 14.500 men of the 2nd Armored Divi sion. The final plane of Big Lift's aerial troop ferry was sched uled to land at Scmbaoh Air Force Base aWt 30 awA south of FranWurt. The by fa - r 4?" ' Reynolds Metal J. chemicals after two hours. The captain, who was tor pedoed once and strafed many times while sailing aboard Ger man tankers during World War II, said he never thought the J. Louis was in danger. The crew was calm below decks, but "there wasn't much praying down below. Everyone was crowded in and there wasn't enough room." "We were lucky, just plain lucky," Krause said. The J. Louis has been mak ing the bauxite run from Ja maica to Corpus Christi for two years. The strafing occurred on the ship's 91st trip, and it had passed the same spot off the Cuban coast 181 times before. "We will go farther out next time," Krause said. Final Effort Urged By UF Chairman Paul Meier, general chairman of the United Fund campaign, Wednesday urged all campaign workers to complete their con tacts and submit reports this week before the weekly report meeting Monday noon. The big push was ordered as contributions to the United Fund passed the 40 per cent mark. itOOZ 60 United Fund Campaign Oct. 24, 1963 Goal $148,311.00 Collected to date .... 61.941.99 Percentage of goal 41.8 1 ism. " "'4 ford . ! Airlift Nears End Ahead Of 130 transport is now on the 5.600 mile transocean flight from Bcrgstrom Air Force Base, Texas, a spokesman said. Correct Estimate Earlier, the Air Force issued an even more optimistic fore cast. A spokesman said tlie air lift phase was expected lo end with the arrival of a C135 jet at Rhein-Main at 6:01 p.m. (1:01 p.m. EDT). Tlie Air Force later corrected the esti mate, admitting that an over eager officer had forgotten to include the slower-moving C130 heading for Scmbach. The Air Force was optimistic it would complete the job in less than 71 hours despite spo radic bad weather that caused Aversion of 11 transports New Constitution Ready SALEM (UPI - A New Ore gon constitution, which would make the secretary of state first in line of succession to the governor, was prepared Wednes day for submission by initiative petition. The document was prepared by nine members of the 17 -member Constitutional Revision Commission wihich voluntarily reactivated at the request of the Citizens' Committee for Consti tutional Revision. Tile citizens plan to spear Weather Klamath Fill!, Tulilakt and Laka- vitwt Cloudy, windy and cool with Ihowtrt ponlblv mixad with snow to night and Friday. Lows tonight 13 to II. High Saturday to M. High yestorday SI Low thit morning 31 High year ago it Low yaar ago M PrKlp. lait 14 noun .11 Slnca Jan. 1 1.J7 Sama pariod yaar ago 14.11 loSo Appeal Asks Ben Bella To Negotiate Conflict ALGERIA (UPI) - The Unit ed States has appealed to Al gerian President Ahmed Ben Bella to negotiate a settlement of his border conflict with Mo rocco, reliable diplomatic sources said today. The appeal was delivered personally by U.S. Ambassa dor William Porter, the sources said, during a conference with Ben Bella Wednesday night. The U.S. plea came as the government controlled Algeri an radio said that Algerian and Moroccan forces remained locked in battle along the bor der. A dispatch from the radio's correspondent at Algerian army headquarters at Colomb Bechar claimed that the Moroccans have retreated 19 miles in the past two days. The radio said the Moroccans left 17 dead and 12 wounded on the battlefield. It asserted that Algerian casualties totaled only seven wounded. Earlier, a dispatch from the front said that Algerian troops backed by artillery had routed Moroccan forces and recap- Campaign officials said most of the participating firms in the campaign have started their in tercompany drives and now is the time for these drives to de velop. Contributions to the United Fund stand at $61,941.99 41.8 per cent of the goal of $148,311. The Pilot Division, which start ed a month earlier than the other divisions, has reached 86.3 per cent of its goal of $34,511 by collecting $29,777.54. But the Education Division is not far behind. Chairman Ray Garrison reports that $9,250.65 or 84.1 per cent of its $11,000 goal has been collected. Next in line is the Special .Gifts Division with $3,45480.3 per cent of its goal of $4,300. Kingsley Field has collected $4,002.43 57.2 per cent of its goal of $7,000. Other divisions and their col lections and percentages are: Large Firms II, $2,033.75, 31.3 per cent; Downtown I, $3,578.68, 27.5 per cent; Public Employes, $1,614, 26.9 per cent; Profession al, $2,807.50, 23.4 per cent; Large Firms I, $4,580.40, 11.2 per cent; Downtown II, $498, 8.3 per cent; and County, 345, 4.9 per cent. Monday's report meeting at the Winema Hotel at noon is ex pected to be the next-to-the-last meeting of the campaign. Wednesday night and early to day. Rain or fog at Rhein Main, primary terminal of Big Lift, and at Chaumont, Toul and Etain in France, cause the planes to be shunted at Milden hall and Prestwick in Britain and Chambley and Evreux in France. Reach Germany Tonight The diverted planes were ex pected to reach bases in Ger many before the last plane from Texas arrived tonight. Rhein Main outside Frank furt was receiving transport today despite I light fog. Wednesday the Air Force bar red Big Lift planes from com ing in for seven hours because of poor visibility. Six planes head tlie initiative drive. Still unresolved is tlie legal question of whether an entire constitution can be initiated. The citizens' committee decided to try, and to fight the battle in tlie courts if necessary. Amendments Adopted At Wednesday's meeting, the commission adopted most of the amendments in the original draft which had been approved by the House during the 1963 legislative session. The measure did not get the Price Tea Cents 28 Pages Pte turcd the disputed border out post of Hassi Beida. (In Marrakcch, Morocco's King Hassan II told a news conference that he is willing to meet with Ben Bella "without any prior conditions" in an ef fort to settle tlie border battle. The U.S. appeal to Ben Bella coincided with a new flareup in the border fighting. But there was a growing optimism here that a cease fire agreement may be reached soon. Military sources here said a 20u-man Algerian force took Hassi Beida, an oasis about 700 miles southwest of Algiers, Wednesday in a battle that was brief but f i e r c e. They said fighting continued in the region Wednesday night. Moroccan officials in Marra kcch formally denied Algeria's claim to have recaptured the outpost.) ,, UPI . correspondent Pierre Raymotyl, wMh Algerian" forces' at the front, "reported from Hassi Beida that Algerian artil lery fire from four 105mm can nons drove the Moroccans back from the outpost. He said Mo roccan forces were supported by two fighter-bombers. Hassi Beida and the nearby oasis of Tinnjoub are vital wa ter stops on the road through the Sahara Desert from Co lomb Bechar to Tindouf, in the extreme southwest corner of Algeria. Moroccan forces are believed still in possession of Tinnjoub, which they occupied last week. U.S. Calls Lodge For Talks WASHINGTON (UPD - Am bassador Henry Cabot Lodge is being recalled to Washington to give the Kennedy administra tion a first-hand report on poli tical and military conditions in strife-torn South Vict Nam. One subject the administra tion will discuss with Lodge is how much harder the U n i t e d States can and should crack down in the future on the gov ernment of President Ngo Dinh Diem to obtain reform. The State Department, in making the announcement Wednesday, insisted that the move did not Indicate en "emergency." Officials said Lodge is supposed to return periodically to meet with policy-makers here. He will return (or several days of consultation at the end of this month or early in November. were diverted (or a total of 16 Wednesday and today. By 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. PDTl. 175 planes o( the Big Lift ar mada had ferried 10,995 troops and 449.9 tons of cargo from Texas, a spokesman said. Gen. Paul L. Freeman Jr., U.S. Army European com mander, said the link - up be tween men and pre stored equipment also was ahead of schedule. Gen. Lyman L. l-emniUer, supreme allied commander in Europe, said today In Paris that rapid troop reinforcements from areas outside Europe are essential to military success of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization (NATO). Operation Big Lift defied necessary two-thirds vote in the Senate. The most significant changes approved Wednesday dealt with the secretary of state, and legis lative apportionment. Tlie group voted to depart from both its original plan, and the House version, and to adopt the "Alaska System." Under this system voters would elect the governor and secretary of state as a team, just as the president and vice president are selected in nation KLAMATH FALLS, ORKGON, Foir ioirdeir- :.-' At & -anti JtiS jf .WMBUaaadt&ii HOLY SMOKE New York attorney Martin Brecker .looks both happy and over whelmed as ha gaxes at a picture of his wife, Rhode, 27, who gave birth to quadrup lets three girls and a boy Wednesday, Brecker laid "It's magnificent. It's a won derful blessing." The children ere the first for the couple. i UPI Telephoto Hurricane Threatens Coastline MIAMI (UPI) Hurricane Ginny moved away from the nation's space port at Cape Ca naveral today and headed in a northwesterly direction that threatened coastal regions of four states with its 75-mile-an-hour winds. Tlie Miami Wcatlier Bureau warned residents along the coast from Jacksonville, Fla., to Brunswick, Ga., to be ready to take quick precautions against the storm which crept along the coastline at about 5 miles per hour some 100 miles off shore. A hurricane walch extended from Cape Canaveral to Brun swick, Ga., and there was a possibility the Carolinas would come into the erratic storm's sights again. In its 9 a.m. EOT advisory, the Miami Weather Bureau lo cated Ginny's center about 105 miles east northeast of Daytona Beach near latitude 29.5 north, longitude 79.4 west. t The advisory warned that be cause of the storm's proximity to the coast, "a slight change In direction would result in rath er rapid increase in wind along the area of the hurricane watch and all interests particularly from Jacksonville to Brunswick should remain on the alert for future advices." "The center of the hurricane is expected to continue a slow movement generally parallel to the coast and some 50 to 100 miles offshore today," the ad visory said. Schedule foggy October weather lo out strip timetables laid down by American planners (or the test of U.S. capability for rapid transocean reinforcement. "If the Air Force keeps up at this pace we may start the ground maneuver phase early," an Army spokesman said. He said the link-up between arriv ing troops and their pre-stored missiles, tanks, artillery and vehicles also was running ahead of' schedule. Transports were swooping in out of mildly foggy skies to Rheln-Mfiin Air Base, the primary Big Lift ter minal, despite forecasts lale Wednesday night the air strip might be abut down by thick ening (og today as it was (or seven hours Wednesday. for Initiative Petition al elections. At present, tlie president of tlie Senate is first in line of succession to governor. Commissioners felt tlie suc cessor should be elected on a statewide basis, and that, the governor should have the assist ance of a constitutional officer who was elected as part of his team. The third constitutional officer would be the controller. Solves Problem Adoption of the "Alaska Sys THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1963 Quadruplets Born To Couple In N.Y. NEW YORK (UPI) - New York's contribution to the pop ulation ' explosion, a set of quadruplets born to a grade school teacher and her attorney husband, were reported in "sat isfactory" condition today. The petite, 90-pound mother of the three girls and one boy, 27-year-old Mrs. Rhoda Breck er was "doing fine" following the multiple delivery by Coc sarean section. A spokesman at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center said the quad's proud father, Martin Brecker, had not yet de cided on names for the couple's first-born, now known as 1, 2, 3 and 4. The quads, weighing a total of 13'j pounds were born Wednesday night between 6:32 and 6:35 p.m. (EDT). They Strong, Gusty Winds Rip Into Oregon By United Press International Gusty southerly winds struck Western Oregon from a Pacific storm today but the Weather Bureau said it did not expect them lo be of destructive pro portions. Full gale warnings flew along the coast. Wind warnings for velocities of 40 to 45 miles per hour with gusts to 50 in the Portland area and for gusts to 40 miles per hour in the Willamette Valley were posted. Winds momentarily hit speeds of 80 mph at Tatoosh Island and more than 50 mph at Astoria but subsided to less than 30 mph at both locations shortly after tlie Shooting Hours OREGON October a Onea Close 7:00 a.m. 6:15 p.m. CALIFORNIA October 2$ Open Close 1:56 a.nta 6:1! p.m. tem" would solve the highly controversial plan originally proposed by tlie commission which would have vested all the executive power in the gov ernor. In tlie iieated apportionment Issue, tlie commission went along with the Senate plan which slightly favors the thinly populated areas of the s t a t e, and sets maximum House mem bership at 65, and top Senate membership at 35. Dropped as unnecessary was Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7610 Wair were placed in incubators but only as a precautionary meas ure, according to a hospital spokesman. They are expected to be kept in incubators for a few days at least. Tlie infants arrived on their due date but their parents who had been advised lo expect "more than one" were shocked when the number hit four. But the father, whose family grew from two lo six in a mat ter of four minutes, rose to the occasion. "It's magnificent. It's a won derful blessing," he said. He added that he and his wife looked forward to having more children to keep the quads com pany. Odds against having quads range from one in 680,000 births to one in a million. Along Coast front passed, the weather man said. The strongest wind in Port land until 8:30 a.m. was 33 miles per hour. The Wcatlier Bureau said winds would decrease by to night. Gusty winds also were forecast east of the Cascades. A deep Pacific storm center in the Alaskan panhandle was blamed for the blow. Drought, Rain And Heat Scattered Across U.S. By United Press International An Indian summer drought burned deeper into the forests and fields of the East today. Water supplies in parts o( New England sank lo their lowest level in nearly 25 years. Fickle Hurricane Ginny shadow-boxed with Florida's east coast, The storm, packing 75-mile-an-hour winds at Us center, lumbered slowly toward the Daytona Beach area early today. More thai! an inch of rain fell in parts of Texas and Ok lahoma Wednesday night. Scat tered showers drifted off the Pacific across Oregon and Washington. a sentence inserted by the House which asserted "the people have at all times a right to alter, reform or abolish the government in the manner they think proper." ' - Mention of the death penalty was taken from the constitution, and left up to the legislature. It is expected the final draft will be ready in December. The legal test may come if the secretary of state refuses to accept tlie initiative filing, or if it is questioned later. Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Hirvttt outlook It poor to fair through Friday and fair to flood Sat urday and Sunday. Hard frttit Mktly Saturday night. TTa Crash Kills 4 Airmen In Viet Nam SAIGON, South Viet .NanY Ur-l)-A U.S. Air Force plane on a flare dropping mission crashed in Communist territory 65 miles south of Saigon today. apparently Killing tour Ameri cans and four Vietnamese on board. A U.S. military spokesman said this afternoon that the C- 123 Transport plane crashed and burned about 2 a.m. : There was no evidence of survivors, he said. The spokesman said the plane was on a mission over Commu nist infested Vinh Binh Prov ince when it went down. - He said the Americans on . board included two officers end two enlisted crewmen. The iour Vietnamese were enlisted crewmen. ; He said the wreckage of th$ craft was "scattered over a , wiuv area miu uiab uuiiuny.-' uuuionucs uia not Know as yet tli reason for the crash. - ! If the Americans were tailed. it would bring the total of U.S. dead in Viet Nam since Janu ary, 1961, to 129. : Of those, counting today's probable dead, 101 have been killed in combat, 57 by hostile action and 48 in accidents; and 28 have died of other causes. Including natural ,i j.j l i . . deaths, suicides and non com bat accidents. Meanwhile, tlie United N lions mission sent here to find out the truth about the politico- religious situation in this strife lorn country, spent its first day listening to government offi cials. Cottar Hurt In Mishap i MEDFORD (Uri) - Sheriff Al Cottar of Siskiyou County! Calif., was reported in fair coni dition today from injuries sufi fercd when his pickup truck hit a herd of five horses in Callt ornia Wednesday night. : Cottar, 47, was brought to Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital here. He was to undergo surgery later today (or (acial fractures. The Highway Patrol at Yreka said Collar was traveling at a moderato rate of speed at the lime of the accident. One of the horses was killed and another had to be destroyed. '. The sheriff struck the horses when he swerved to miss an oncoming truck whose light blinded him. : Unseasonable heat in the North shattered several temper ature records Wednesday. Chi cago had a high of 85 degrees", toppling a 62-year" mark. Other records Included Cleveland. Ohio. 80; Mnline, III., 85; and Buffalo, N.Y., 73. Cheyenne, Wyo., set an all time record for late frost. There has been no frost yet this fall. : Casper, Lander and Sheridan, Wyo., all without frost, have set new records for high tempera tures so late In the year. Ri verton, Wyo., which had a frost Oct. 16, had a record 114-day . growing season for crops.