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Louis, shows shell
lodged
the coast of Cuba.
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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,
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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
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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
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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$
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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.