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' By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington the other
day:
A license for export ot 30.000
LONG TONS of corn to Hun
gary has been granted by the
Commerce Department. This is
the first export license granted
for shipment of grain to East
ern European nations since
'President Kennedy approved
the sale of subsidized farm
products to the Soviet bloc a
couple of weeks ago.
Question:
How much corn
terms of bushels?
is that in
Well, in this case the Com
merce Department figured it
out for us.
It s a y s that 30,000 LONG
TON'S of corn come to 1,200,000
busliels, valued at $1,929,384.
Dividing the dollars by the
bushels reveals that the price
obtained for the corn is about
$1.60 per bushel.
So that's that.
But-
Supposc you were a Midwest
corn farmer, on a rather large
scale, and some foreign buyer
came along and made you an
offer of $1,929,384 for 30,000
LONG TONS of corn.
Just how mould you go about
finding out HOW MUCH PER
BUSHEL the offer represent
ed? You'd have quite a job of re
search ahead of you.
First you would discover that
there are several kinds of tons.
For example:
The ton is a m e a s u r e of
weight and capacity in the Eng
lish system, upon which our sys
tem is based. In both Britain
and the United Stales, the ton is
equal to 20 hundredweight.
But-
In Britain, the hundredweight
is equal to 112 pounds. So (he
British ton is e q u a 1 to 2240
pounds. In America, the hun
dredweight is e q u a 1 to 100
pounds. So our ton is equal to
2.000 pounds.
In practice, the 2.000 pound
ton is called a SHORT ton.
The 2240 pound ton is called a
LONG ton.
Then
There is the METRIC ton.
The metric ton is equal to
1,000 kilograms. A kilogram is
a unit of mass and weight in
the metric system. It is equal
to 1,000 grams, or about 2.2
pounds.
So-
A metric ton is approximately
2,200 pounds, give or take a few
grams.
The point?
It is this:
If you start selling your corn
or your wheat or your barley
in terms of tons instead of
bushels, you will want to be
very sure indeed just what kind
of tons you are dealing with.
Otherwise, you may lose your
shirt.
Home Claims British
Developed Atom Bomb
EASTER ROSS. Scotland
'UPI 'Prime Minister Sir Alec
Douglas-Home said today that
Britain developed a nuclear
weapon before the United
Slates.
"We were the first in the field
w ith the nuclear deterrent, and
if it were not for the vulnera
bility of Great Britain in war it
would not have gone across the
Atlantic so soon." Douglas
Home told a news conference.
He did not elaborate.
But informed sources recalled
that reports have circulated
here for years that, although
American scientists had solved
the problem theoretically. Brit
ish experts were the first to de
velop a workable "trigger" lor
the atomic bomb.
The former 14th Earl of
Home, his black cat mascot at
his side, plunged into the by
election race at Kinross and
West Perthshire, running fur the
House of Commons seat he it
recking before leading km Ca
servative early mm pea 4
Weather
Klamath Fills. Tulttakt and Lake
view Cloudy wim a ftw brlaf ihowtri
tonight. Not to cold tonight, lowf M
32. Mostly fair Tuesday, highs 50-S5.
Southerly winds S-1S miles per hour.
High yesterday SI
Low this morning 23
High year ago M
Low year ago 34
Precip. past 14 hours
Sinct Jan. 1
7.3
Simi period tait ytar
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AIRMAN OFFERS BLOOD A.I. C. Lou Nowlin registers with Mrs. Winston D. Pur.
vine, blood program chairman for the Klamath Basin Chapter of the Red Cross, to
donate a pint of blood when the bloodmobile visits the Kingsley Field Service Club, 10
a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 29. The air field is striving to collect 250 pints of blood
during its blood donor drive.
Senator Denies Expose
Of Profumo-Type Affair
WASHINGTON (UPH Sen.
John J. Williams, It-Del., said
today he has nothing to "prove
or disprove" reports of a Pro-fumo-like
story of a German
beauty's relations with promi
nent Washington figures, .
Williams ivid in a statement
that the reports about activities
of the West German woman,
who was returned home after
an FBI investigation, were not
among the incidents he is to
discuss before the Senate Rules
UF Drive Ahead
Of 1962 Effort
Collections for the Klamath
County United Fund were re
ported today to be running 10
per cent over those last year,
and campaign chairman Paul
Meier said the campaign won't
end until the goal of $148,311 is
approached.
Campaign wo-kers today met
for the filth Monday in a row
and heard that to dale $63,
986.42 or 43.1 per cent of
the goal has been collected.
Meier urged campaign work
ers to keep up their contacts.
He said the drives in most lo
cal firms have been organized
and will develop rapidly from
this point as pledges are col
lected. Nearly half of the collections
He defended strongly the
agreement with President Ken
nedy which gave Britain Po
laris missiles for submarines,
and he rejected firmly opposi
tion Labor party charges that
this nation no longer has a nu
clear strike force of its own.
Douglas-Home said that if La
bor leader Harold Wilson "is
saying this, he is really suggest
ing that Britain's greatest ally,
the United Slates, will break
her pledge."
"We shall have the use of the
Polaris missiles in nuclear sub
marines under sole control
when we get them certainly
with complete freedom to use
them in the supreme national
interest." he added.
"Of course, they would never
be used unless the life of this
country was in danger."
Douglas-Home again attacked
Labor's plan to give up the de
terrent and concentrate on con
ventional forces in Britain. He
w4 warns Britain to keep
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Committee in a closed session
Tuesday.
The committee is investigat
ing outside activities ot Senate
employes, primarily the affairs
of former Senate Democratic
Secretary Robert G. (Bobby)
Baker.' 1
Williams referred s)ecifically
to a copyrighted story about the
German woman in Sunday's
Des Moines (Iowa I Register.
Williams said the story "did not
originate from my office, and
to date have been in the Pilot
Division, which started cam
paigning in September. To date,
the Pilot Division reported that
86.7 per cent of its goal of $34,
511 has been collected. The to
tal to date is $29,920.38.
Running just slightly behind
the Pilot Division is the Educa
tion Division. Chairman Ray
Garrison reported that $9,250.65
84.1 per cent or its goal of
$11,000 has been collected.
And Special Gifts chairman
Gayl Upington reported that di
visions total collections to date
are $3,479 80.9 per cent of
the $4,300 goal.
In fourth place is the Kings
ley Field Division, where chair
man Maj. Curt Gruye reported
collections of $4,012.84 57.3
per cent of the $7,000 goal.
Other divisions, their collec
tions to date, and percentages
of goals are:
Large Firms II. $2,854.43. 43 9
per cent ; Downtown I. $3,578.68,
27.5 per cent; Public Employes,
$1.614 04. 26.9 per cent: Profes
sional, $2.844 50. 23.7 per cent:
Downtown II, $832.50. 13.9 per
cent; Large Firms I ,$5,254.40,
12.8 per cent, and Counly, $345,
4.9 per cent.
Customs
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI I -Customs
agents moving in on 19
Chinese crewmen from a Nor
wegian freighter seized $700,000
worth of opium Sunday in the
biggest West Coast raid in 15
years.
Customs men from four West
Coat cities and investigators
from the Federal Bureau of
Narcotics, tailing the suspects
since the vessel Hoegh Dene
docked here Saturday, made
simultaneous arrests of the
crewmen who were scattered
along the waterfront and in Hie
city's Chinatown.
A Chinatown resident, Ng Poy,
A3, was picked up following tlie
tttkwr arrests as the susm)
X CMtiver of the smuggled yfi'-j.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
whether it is true or false is
something for which I cannot
answer and for which the writer
will have to assume the full re
sponsibility." He added in his
statement:
. "There is nothing in my files
which will cither prove or dis
prove the story nor was this
one of the subjects on the agen
da to be discussed at my meet
ing with the Senate Rules Com
mittee tomorrow."
The parly girl was described
as the 27-year-old brunette wife
of a West German army ser
geant who had been assigned to
the German military mission
here.
The woman, called a "ravish
ing beauty" by an embassy
spokesman, was whisked back
to Germany with her husband
on Aug. 21 at the urging of the
FBI, which had investigated
her behavior.
Party Gets
Bare Facts
HOLLYWOOD (UPI (-Actress
Mamie Van Doren says she'll
strip for the good of the Grand
Old Party.
"I don't know what those Re
publicans are going to flunk."
she said in announcing a polit
ical fund-raising tour of the
state of Washington, "but I
know they need the money."
Miss Van Doren, who says
she is neither a Republican nor
a Democrat, said she wears "a
little leotard underneath nude
color, like flesh" during her
art.
Billed by a local wag as a
"rally 'round the leotard," the
actress said the six rallies, ex
pected to attract 40.000 persons,
had been sold nut for days.
"There must be a lot of Re
publicans up there," she said.
Seize Big Opium
All 19 of the Nationalist Chi
nese sailors were carrying por
tions of the drug in rolled up
rubber containers, agents said,
and more was later found con
cealed aboard the vessel.
Chief ARcnt Frank L. I-ong
said the 57 pounds of confiscat
ed opium would have whole
saled at $100 an ounce but that
after processing and diluting it
would have sold for as much as
$700,000.
Agents continued searching
the vessel for possible portions
of drugs hidden away such as
that found late Sunday behind
a bolted steel wall panel of the
vessel.
sign arrived Saturday
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1963
Opponents Of Moon Shot
Aided By Russian Move
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rus
sia's w ithdrawal from the moon
race provided new ammunition
for opponents of the U.S. lunar
program today and caused ap
prehension among its sup
porters. Officials of the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion (NASA I said they planned
to go ahead with the next step
in the U.S. program. Project
Gemini to orbit two astronauts
in one space capsule. They said
the moon program would con
tinue on schedule.
Nikita Says Russia
Giving Up Venture
MOSCOW (UPH The So
viet Union, now officially out of
the race to the moon, turned to
day to the domestic problems
that may have prompted its de
cision. Premier Nikita S. Khrush
chev, in a 10.000-word interview
to Soviet journalists Saturday,
said "it would be very interest
ing to make a trip to the moon
but 1 cannot say now when this
will be possible." Noting the
U.S. target dote of 1970 for such
a flight, he said "I wish them
success. And we shall watch
how they fly there."
Western observers believed
tlie decision may have followed
recognition that the money car
marked for space was more ur
gently needed on earth to solve
industrial and agricultural prob
lems and to provide a better
standard of living.
Communist union spokesmen
for 68 million workers met
here today to discuss better
working conditions including a
proposal to cut I lie work week
for most employes from 41 to
36 hours.
Khrushchev made news on a
number of fronts in his long in
terview. Hik mujor points in
cluded: American Wheat: Khrush
chev balked at agreeing to ship
the $250 million worth of Amer
ican wheat ho seeks to buy on
U.S. ships, which would cost the
Demos Adopt Vait-See
Attitude On Session
SALEM (UPD-Orogon House
Democrats will cooperate with
Gov. Mark Hatfield in solving
the state's fiscal problems at a
special session of the legislature
next month, they agreed at a
caucus here Sunday.
However, tlvcy did not take
any action on the question of
giving Hatfield the power to
handle cuts in the basic school
fund.
House Speaker Clarence Bar
ton, D-Coquillc, said the Demo
crats wanted to wait and see
what the situation was when the
special session opened Nov. 11,
The special session was made
necessary when the 1963 legis
from Los Angeles where it had
docked last week after a voy
age from tlie Far East. Cus
toms investigators said the opi
um probably was put aboard in
Singapore, the Hoegh Dene's
last Oriental stop before sailing
east.
Agent Joseph Jenkins said au
thorities became suspicious of
the Norwegian ship because of
its crew roster. An unusually
large number of the vessel's
Chinese crew had records of
trafficking in narcotics, he Mid.
When it docked here each sus
pect was assigned an agent who
followed his man every time a
crewman left the ship. Jenkins
said the wspocti made frequent
Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7613
But both Republican and
Democratic legislators voiced
belief that the announcement by
Soviet Premier Nikila Khru
shchev in Moscow Saturday
might ultimately delay the U.S.
lunar program.
Senate GOP Leader Everett
M. Dirksen, III., who has sup
ported former President Dwight
D. Eisenhower's view that the
U.S. moon program should be
delayed until the nation is in
sounder financial shape, said:
Pressure Against Program
"I am sure that Russia's
Russians as much as $12 a ton
more than the world average.
"If the Americans attach any
discriminatory terms to the sale
of wheat we shall not buy
wheat in America." he said.
The Soviet Kconomy:
Khrushchev said that on the
whole it was going "very well,"
but bad weather caused grain
crop failures and made foreign
grain purchases necessary.
He said the nation's chemical
industry, which will be the sub
ject of a central committee
meeting next month, needs an
investment of $22 billion in the
next seven years to make more
fertilizer for the farms and
more plastics for industry and
the consumer.
The Sfno-Sovirt Dispute: He
called for an "end to the pole
mics" betw een the two Commu
nist giants. Western observers
said this could be a prelude to
a final conciliation attempt be
fore a possible rupture of par
ly and even government rela
tions. Germany: Khrushchev
called again for a German
peace treaty and "free city"
status for West Berlin. He
charged that West Germany
was a "military camp where
almost ono million soldiers arc
concentrated" and that West
German leaders dream of "es
tablishing tlicir order" in Com
munist East Germany.
lature's $60 million tax pro
gram was turned down by the
state's voters earlier this
month.
The Democrats also agreed la
limit the special session to tiie
state's financial problems and
to rule changes which would re
quire bills to go through a
rules committee before being
introduced.
This, in effect, would give the
Hmi.se Rules Committee au
thority over the subjects which
would come before the I o w e r
chamber.
No action was taken on pro
posals for cutting Die salaries
of the state legislators.
Cache
visits to the home of Poy, who
also has a lengthy record of
narcotics violations.
Yesterday at I p.m., Jenkins
and other officers arrested a
group of nine Hoegh Done crew
men, found opium in their pos
session and Hashed the signal
by radio to arrest the remain,
ing suspects.
None of those arrested resist
ed. All were charged, along
with Poy, with violation of fed
eral narcotics smuggling laws
and Poy was also charged with
receiving.
Jenkins, a 15-year customs of.
flee veteran, called it "tlie big.
gest West Coast opiisa seizure
I can remember.
Weather
AGRICULTURAL FORECAST
Harvttt outlook fair to good with
thrcit of ittowart tonight ind again
Wtdneiday. Ttmptraluret abovt nor
mal thii wttk.
plans will generate pressure
against our present moon pro
grams.
Senate Democratic Whip Hub
ert II. Humphrey, Minn., said
that "we shouldn't let Khru
shchev's words govern our ac
tions. We should continue with
our moon program as planned."
Rep. Olin Tcague, D- Tex.,
second ranking member of the
House Space Committee, voiced
concern about the future of the
U.S. program.
I'm afraid this will hurl our
moon program maybe not this
year in Congress but next
year," Tcague said. "I wouldn't
be surprised if Khrushchev is
just trying to make us drup our
guard."
However, Son. J. William Ful
bright, D-Ark., said he support
ed withdrawal of the United
States from the moon race. He
said that "the money can be
used for a number of better
tilings, including aid to educa
tion." Humphrey said Khrushchev's
announcement underscored "the
serious economic problems the
Soviet Union is encountering.
They just can't afford all these
programs."
Reinforces Pauling
Dirksen said tlie Khrushchev
statement "certainly reinforces
Dr. (Linus) Pauling's ar
gument." Pauling, California chemist
who recently won his second
Nobel Prize, attacked the Ken
nedy administration program
last week, saying the money
wouia oe Dctter spent on health
research.
East Gets
Vital Rain
By United Press International
Rain came at last today to
the drought parched East. But
there was not nearly enough of
it to douse forest fire threats
or boost dwindling water sup
plies. Along with tlie rain came cool
weather which broke an Indian
Summer heat wave that had set
records day after day in the
nation's eastern third.
In New England, Hie rains,
were live first measurable pre
cipitation in 25 days. Scattered
sections of southern Maine,
southern New Hampshire and
Vermont soaked up amounts
measuring more than a quarter
of an inch. Rut in otlier areas
the rainfall was measured by
fractions.
The word from tlie Weatlier
Bureau was that live showers
might ease New England's for
est fire dungcr hut only for a
day or so.
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W 1 wXL. .- J sftt
OTI HOMECOMING QUEEN PaulaHe Eden daft) Saturday was crowned Oregon
Technical Institute's Homecoming queen during halftlme ceremonies at the OTI-Ore-gon
State College football game. She is shown with her escort, John Francii. Two of
her princeises are shown at right, They are Ton! McKibban (center) and Cathy Ken
yon. Paulette it a first-term medical technician student and daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Paul Eden of Klamath Falls. She wat sponsored by the Auto-Diesel Division and chosen
in camput-wide balloting, Besides Miss McKibban and Mitt Kaiyjn,, tha other prin.
cessei were Becky Aubel, Jania tut rA! PeJjq? H4h& .
Big Airlift Planes
Used For Movement
FRANKFURT, Germany,
(UPD - The United States
shipped home 1,500 combat
troops on return flights of Op
eration Big Lift planes but kept
the movement secret to avoid
arousing Europeans' concern, it
was learned today.
Big Lift, which brought more
than 15,000 combat troops from
bases in Texas to Germany for
maneuvers, caused fears here
I hat the number of U.S. troops
permanently stationed in Eu
rope would be cut.
The 1,500-man battle group
was being returned to the Unit
ed States in a normal rotation
move and its witlxlraw.il had
nothing to do w ith reducing the
Foreign Aid
Taken Up
By Senate
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
William J. Fulbright, D-Ark
called for passage of the full
$4.2 billion foreign aid program
today because deep cuts would
"pose unacceptable risks" in
foreign policy.
While urging the administra
tion to overhaul the program,
Fulbright, chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Commit
tee, said "we cannot tear up
the blueprints before us and
create a new structure on the
floor of the Senate."
The Arkansas Democrat was
the first speaker as the Senate
prepared to begin debate on tlie
long-delayed measure to au
thorize another year of the aid
program. Senate leaders hoped
for final action by the weekend.
Supporters of the measure
apparently faced an uphill bat
tle to keep the bill from being
cut or restrictions being added.
Several major efforts to cut tlie
money amounts were expected
and amendments to tighten
standards for a country's eligi
bility to receive aid were seen.
Tlie $4.2 billion bill recom
mended by the foreign rela
tions group is $700 million more
than tlie $3.5 billion voted by
the House. President Kennedy
had requested $4.5 billion.
Shooting Hours
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trcngth of tlie six U.S. di
visions here.
But Washington officials, cur-
rently seeking to counteract
suspicion in Europe that U, S.
combat power here may be re
duced, were reported to have
feared the rotation move would
be misunderstood. :
No Announcement Allowed
Strenuous efforts were made
i divert attention from the
Kansas outfit's return after six
months' temporary duty and no
announcement was allowed.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
gave additional reassurances
that no cuts were contemplated
in U. S. strength in Europe in
a speech here Sunday dedicat
ing a memorial to soldier
statesman Gen. George C. Mar
shall. We have six divisions in
Germany," he said. "We intend
to maintain these divisions here
as long as there is n e e d for
tiicm and under present cir
cumstances there is no doubt
that they will continue to be
needed and they are backed
by nuclear forces of almost un
imaginable power.
In reference to fears ex
pressed here that Operation Big
Lift, by its demonstration that
an entire armored division can
be airlifted to Europe in 1 e s s
than three days, would lead to
troop cuts, Rusk said:
A Source Of Strcngtn
'The opposite is the case. Be
cause of this airlift we have at
the moment a seventh division
temporarily in Europe. More
over, equipment is in position
for still another division. Tnus,
the airlift capability developed
by Hie United States at such
great expense provides a ma
jor source of added strength to
the alliance."
Rusk called on the European
members of the NATO alliance
to work for increased military
and political cooperation. He
stressed in particular the need
lor a NATO nuclear force of
Polaris-armed ships financed
and manned by several coun
tries. The Big Lift rotation move in
volved the 2nd Battle Group.
26th Infantry, which went back
to Ft Riley, Kan., from tem
porary duty in Germany.
Dick Denies
Draft Role
NEW YORK (UPD-Former
Vice President Richard M, Nix
on has issued a denial of re
ports that he may be a dark
horse candidate for the 1964 Re
publican presidential nomina
tion. "I have noticed a rash' of
statements about my Inten
tions," Nixon said. "First I am
not a candidate and there will
not be a draft. I am not sup
porting or opposing any of those
who have indicated they are
candidates.
"1 will support any one of
those who wins the nomination
in San Francisco (the site of
the GOP convention)."
Nixon made the comments on
his return from a 10-day Euro
pean trip on Saturday.
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