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U.OF ORE.UTBRART HSPAPER SBCriON OEH.REF.AN8 OOCUMEMTS DIV, coup. AUTOMATION State Representative Carrol Howe of Klamath County (standing) met with members of the Legislative Interim Committee on Technological Employment yesterday afternoon during the first of two days of public hearings on the effects of automation within the county. The hearing was held at the local employment office yesterday and moved to the OTI campus today. The three lawmakers who officiated at the hearing are, left to right, Sen. Alfred H. Corbett, Sen. Arthur P. Ireland and Rep. Richard Kennedy. Nine legislators compri-e the committee. Technological Committee Studies Automation Impact By DICK BRir.C.S The machine is gradually re placing the unskilled worker in the potato and timber Indus- In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, Moroccan troops are reported to have routed the remnants of three Al gerian battalions (rum a con tested Sahara oasis. Headquar ters of the Moroccan task force at Tagounit say Moroccan troops now control the entire area around the oasis of Hassi Beida, scene of the fighting for the past two weeks. In Morocco, military spokes men reported Moroccan planes and troops had pushed back a stream of Algerian reinforce ments trying to reach forward outposts that are under siege. Your reaction to that news? It's probably something like this: "Let 'em go to it, and may the best man win. It's a long way off, and it doesn't concern me much. I have troubles of my own." Wait a minute. Read t Ills dispatch from Al giers: Western diplomats say that SOVIET tanks and planes have arrived in Algeria aboard a CU BAN ship. These diplomatic sources say the Cuban ship ar rived in the Algerian port of Iran Friday with modern Sovi et tanks and crated jet fighter planes. The diplomats add that the Soviet tanks and planes were part of a major arms shipment ordered from the Soviet Union LONG BEFORE the outbreak of the Sahara conflict. Which is to say: 1. The Russians have been re ported to be uninterested in fur ther forays in Africa, but LONG before the present ruckus be tween Morocco and Algeria broke out tliey were selling planes and tanks to the communist-slanted Algerian govern ment. 2. When the lime came to de liver the tanks and the planes, the delivery was made by CUBA, Russia's stooge. Disturbing thought: When Russia orders. Cuba obeys. Suppose Russia should order Cuba to start stashing away RUSSIAN MISSILES again. From Washington: Leaders of the U.S. space pro gram report that Soviet pull back on lunar landing effort will not and should not affect U.S. moon research pojects. James E. Webb, administra tor of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, says the United States has put to gether a program calculated to cost $35 billion over a period of ten vears. He adds: "This program can not be turned on and off without seri ous losses in time and money." Personal question: Which wtwld YOU prefer Spending $.S BILLION, and adding it to our already stag gering national debt, in an ef fort to put l man on the moon Or calling it off and using the billion to REDUCE our na tional debt and thus helping to reduce taxes? tries in Klamath County, rep resentatives of those fields told a Legislative Interim Commit tee on Technological Employ ment Tuesday during the first of two days of hearings which concluded here today. But while machines loom as obstacles to t h e unskilled in their efforts to earn a liveli- Debt Limit Increased WASHINGTON UPI Acting with unusual speed, the House Ways & Means Committee to day approved the administra tion's request to raise the na tional debt limit to $315 billion for the last seven months of this fiscal year. Republicans fought the move, arguing the figure was too high but lost on a straight party-line vote. The current temporary limit of $309 billion will expire Nov. 30 unless Congress acts. The debt ceiling then would revert to its permanent level of $285 billion, far below the present actual mark. The national debt now stands at 107 billion. Shooting Hours OREGON October 31 Open Close 6:02 a.m. 5:07 p.m. CALIFORNIA October 31 Open Close 6:06 a.m. 5:03 p.m. Snag Delays Rescue Of 3 Trapped Miners PEINE. Germany UPH Three miners trapped more than five days 262 feet below the earth in a flooded iron mine will not be rescued before Thursday night or Friday morn ing, the mine manager said to day. Rudolf Slein, manager of the Mathilde mine, said gravel in a partially completed escape shaft was snagging steel pipe bring lowered to line the hole and it may have to be re-drilled. Rescue workers were trying to keep the full impact of the discouraging news from the miners below. But the men, all mine veterans, sensed some thing was wrong. "Don't worry if you don't hear the drilling for a while," a res cue official told them a telephone lowered throuch a drilled contact shaft. "We've got to put in steel piping and cement." "That means another night down here." a miner below re plied. He sounded glum, an of ficial said The three men Gerhard Hanusch. 4,1. Fritz Leder, 30, and Emil Pohlai, .14 were re ported in good condition in their nine-foot-wide chamber, where I I lined, they, or tne lack of them, also present problems to t h e businessman with limited oper ating expense. Yet, firms which do not keep pace with the changes brought on by automa tion will fall by the wayside victims of a system of mass production which continues to improve upon itself by ,way of increased yields at lower pro duction costs. On the other side of the pic ture, individuals who do n o t train themselves will find there will be less and less room for them in the coming world of greater technology. The world will pass them by. The problems of the small po tato producer, as well as some otlier business enterprises, in realizing a fair return from large investments in expen sive machinery is becoming in creasingly more, difficult each year in the face of rising operational costs, and, occa sionally, overproduction, which drives down tlic price of the commodity grown by produc ers. Those problems, among oth ers, were hinted at by Duane Blackman, operator of the Blackman - Dchlingcr farm near Dairy, who told the com mittee yesterday that since automation has made its effect felt in industry four workers now using heavy farm equip ment in tlie potato harvest do the job of 35 laborers working by hand. The interim committee is not troubled primarily with how in dustry reconciles its problems of large capital outlays for equipment with rising opera tional costs and overproduction. Its concern is w i t h the 31 workers out of the 35 which have been replaced by ma chines, and, perhaps, with some of the remaining four which similarly may be replaced dur ing the coming years. What has happened to those 31 workers? Leonard Sytsma, state cm- (Continued on Page 4-A) tliey were receiving food passed down a six - inch communica tions tube and taking pictures of each other with a camera sent down by United Press In ternational. Elaborate preparations will be necessary before the men can be brought up. including cleaning the shaft and installing a decompression chamber at the top to keep the miners from getting tlie "bends" after their long imprisonment in high-pressure air. Then a rescue worker will go down and help the men into a 10 . foot - long tcel capsule I in which they will slowly be brnueht to tlie surface, one at I a time. The rescuer will come ! up last. Hanusch, I.cdcr and Pohlai i were among 129 men working I in the mine when the bottom of I a huce pond on the surface I caved in last Thursdav night. snilling 19 million gallons of sludge - filled water down the shafts. ' Forty men were killed. All the olhers reached safety, ex cept the three trapped in an air bubble al the dead end of j a 300-font-long lateral shaft I that tilts up at the eid. Educators Delay PORTLAND (UPll - The budget-minded State Board of Higher Education has called a special meeting one week after the special session of the legis lature ends. The special session meets Nov. 11. Meanwhile, the board closed a two-day meeting Tuesday by telling slate-supporcd schools to cut some $1.5 million out of non teaching and student fund allo Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelako and Lake view Fair and cool again tonight, lows 2S to 32. Incrtatlng cloudiness with showers likely lata Thursday, highs SO to S3. High vestarday SS Low this morning 3a High year ago at Low year ago 34 Preclp. past 94 hours .04 Sinca Jan. 1 0.M Same period last yaar 14.30 U.S. Trio Captured In Viet Nam SAIGON, South Viet Nam UPI Three Americans were reported captured by Commu nist guerrillas today in an am bush on a Vietnamese govern ment unit that was accompan ied by U.S. advisers. Military spokesman said 4Jie Communists inflicted at least 50 per cent casualties on tlie gov ernment troops. Twenty Viet namese soldiers were killed, 11 were missing, and 32 were wounded. There were no known Communist casualties. 1 was believed that two of the captured Americans were officers and the third was an enlisted medical technician. Tlie two officers were reported to have been wounded in tlie at tack. The U.S. advisers were ac companying a Vietnamese strike force on a sweep against Communist positions in Xuyen Province. When the Vietnamese reached the area where the guerrillas had been reported, they found they had vanished. They apparently were am bushed on the return trip to their base. rrryWrt.V-.r.rvtfVVWVW Man Shatters Own Business SAN DIEGO. Calif. (UPI) The owner of a San Diego janitorial service was ar rested Monday on suspicion of breaking more than 200 dirty windows he was hired to clean. 'Police said Bernard G. Pol lard, 34, of the Dependable Maintenance and Janitorial Service, had hoped tlie custo mer would blame juveniles for the breakage. But a pri vate investigator took films of the incident, officers said. Mother Fails HONG KONG (UPI) Mrs. Ruth Redmond of Yonkers, N.Y., returned from Commu nist China today after visiting her son in Shanghai prison. But she had no luck in winning his freedom. Mrs. Redmond's son, Hugh, ay lliiin.1 IS III e lu.n.ai wmmmmmmmmmmmmmm .... ; as I ' jQv Nst'''-?' TIME ON HIS HANDS Miner Emil Pohlai teems totally relaxed at he poses 262 feet underground, trappad in a mine near Peine, Germany. Pohlai it one of three miners who hai been "buried" for nearly a week. Rescue officials said today the miners will spend at leait another day and possibly two in their underground prison. This photo wai made by one of the other two trapped men with a camera lowered to them by a UPI cameraman. UPI Talephoto cations. The way the money will be cut was left up to the schools. Such cutbacks would affect fees paid to support student government, athletics, and campus press services. They al so would reduce maintenance and janitorial services. William E. Walsh, chairman of the board, said action on oth er cuts would be held up until after the legislature meets. Gov. Heraltiatt Price Ten Cents 20 Pages fw Seized fNt ; !. a.l--iiin.iiiiii ii iiiiniirirjf r' ' ' ' ti I I ' "1 LeU PASSED SECRETS John William Butenko, 38, ducks his head as he is escorted from the FBI headquarters in Newark, N.J., last night following his arrest on chargesof passing classified defense contract information to members of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations. Butenko is an electrical engineer with the International Elec tric Corp. UPI Telephoto Bobby Baker Among Those Aided By Tax Break1 Bill WASHINGTON (UPI I Eigh teen months ago former Senate Democratic Secretary Robert G. (Bobby) Baker was among the happy beneficiaries of a tax break sponsored by the man who was to become his nemesis, Sen. John J. Williams, R-Dol. Today the 35-year-old politico entrepreneur, who resigned his $19,600 job earlier this month, is the target of a wide-ranging investigation sparked by Wil liams. The turn of e v e n t s which placed the two men on oppo To Gain Son's is one of four Americans im prisoned in Red China as al leged American spies. Redmond is serving a life sentence. The grey - haired Mrs. Red mond told a news conference that she was disappointed that she was not able to slay long Action Mark Hatfield has asked that lusher education take a cut of $8.2 million because of voter re jection of the income tax mea sure Oct. 15. Tuition Hike Eyed Chancellor Roy Lieuallen has suggested holding faculty salar ies at present levels and boost ing tuition and academic re quirements, the latter to hold enrollment to this year's levels. Proposed cuts also would af KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1963 site sides of the current sensation-tinged inquiry may touch on other prominent persons, in and out of government. A House Republican has asked whether the Senate Rules Committee inquiry is connected with sex-spiced reports of the forced flight from Washington to her native Germany of 27-year-old Mrs. Ellen Rometsch, wife of a German army ser geant. Has Great Interest Baker, whose job in the Sen ate was to help speed the pas- Freedom enough to help celebrate her son's 43rd birthday today. She said the Communists would not extend her visa. "They extended it for one day but that wasn't enough," she said. She explained earlier that she was able, however, to have an "advance birthday party" with her son Monday in his bleak prison cell. Mrs. Redmond said she found her son in excellent spirits considering his position but said he seemed to "have lost a little weight." She said she made a new np pcal to Chinese authorities for the release of her son on hu manitarian grounds. But like an earlier appeal, it went unheeded. She declined to discloso details of the appeal, including to whom it was made. Mrs. Redmond said she visit ed her son on four different oc casions. Their conversation was restricted by Communist order to innocuous family affairs and Totaled subjects. Congressional Pay Raise Approved WASHINGTON UPH - The House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, today ap proved legislation to raise tlie pay of congressmen. Cabinet members, federal judges, and about 1.8 other government em. ployes by tnro million a year. The measure would raise tlie pay of practically every civilian federal employe, from the vice president to the lowest ranking civil servant, increases in civil service and post office ranks would range from 3 to 22 5 per cent. Top level appointed and elected officials would get in creases of up to $10,000 i year. On Most Budget Cuts fect tlie University of Oregon Medical School Hospital by cut ting 46 beds and reducing the number of patients receiving crippled children's care. One ward at the tuberculosis hospital in Salem would be phased out but Lieuallen said no one need ing treatment would be denied it. A cutback of $8.2 million would affect such items as edu cational television, agriculture sage of leadership-backed legis lation, had more than passing interest In the tax code amend ment offered by Williams and 17 fellow senators and passed by the Senate March 19, 1W2. Designed to help East Coast property owners whose homes or business properties had been damaged by the Atlantic storm of early 1062, the amendment permitted these taxpayers to ap ply their 19fi2 "disaster losses" against their 1961 federal in come liability. Tlie tax break was approved by tlie Treasury Department on the ground that, olhcrwisc, those entitled to tax refunds for their loss could not get them until they filed their 1DG3 returns. Motel Damaged Baker was among the disas ter "victims" because his $1.2 million Carousel Motel, then nearing completion outside Ocean City, Md., took a pound ing from the storm. He left no (kiuht at tlie time that the Wil liams amendment wtnikl mean a substantial tax saving on his 1961 income. Williams outlined his informa tion on Baker's outside finan cial interests in a 2'vhour closed door session with the rules committee Tuesday. Then the group recessed until Friday, when it will decide whether to hire outside counsel or use its own attorneys to direct the in vestigation. Senate investigators said they had been given Information which if verified would suggest that "there might be a conflict of interest" in Rak er's transactions. The committee approved tlie bill 15-9 but It is sure to run into plenty of opposition from economizers in Congress. Under the plan, members of Congress would have their pay raised from $22,500 to $.12,500 a year. Cabinet memliers would get a hike to $.15,000 from $25, 000. Prior to revisions, the pay legislation would have raised Cabinet and congressional sal aries by $12,500. Tlie proposed pay raise rep resents a compromise between a bill co-sponsored by Reps. Morris, K. Udall, D-Arii., and Joel T. Broyhill, R-Va., which On experiment station work and forestry and fishery research. One proposal called for rais ing of annual tuition by $75, or $25 a term. Some college presidents ap peared to be against a proposal to raise entrance requirements for Oregon students above the present two-point, or "C" aver age. One suggestion would have students w ith lower high school Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7615 ENGLEWOOD, N. J. (UPD- j An American engineer arrested Tuesday night while allegedly passing classified data to mem bers of tlie Soviet U.N. delega tion had access to Strategic Air Command (SAC) secrets, it was disclosed today. FBI agents arrested John Wil liam Butenko, 38, of Russian parentage, and a Russian chauf feur, Igor A. Ivanov, 33, In the Englewood rail station parking lot together with two members of the Soviet U.N. mission. Bu tenko and Ivanov were held in $100,000 bail each on espionage charges after pleading innocent at tlieir arraignment. The two Russians were released because of diplomatic immunity. The FBI said the four had in their possession a briefcase full of air defense contract secrets. A spokesman for BiKenko's em ployer, tlie International Elec tric Corp. of Paramus, N. J., said Butenko had top security clearance as control adminis trator for the firm's field oper ations, including SAC installa tions. New System International Electric, a sub sidiary of International Tele phone and Telegraph Co., has been under contract to tlie gov ernment since 1058 to produce a new command and control system for SAC that would Jink the command b bomber, missile and logistic support bases around tlie world. v; A company spokesman said millions of dollars have oeen poured into the program, which occupies the majority of inter national's workers. Butenko's $14,70O-a-year job was to main tain a master schedule concern ing the contract In regard to Civil Rights Bill Clears First Jump WASHINGTON (UPI) The civil rights bill lhat President Kennedy wants was on the track today but House passage of the bipartisan measure still was a month or more away. The Senate may not get to act on the bill until next year. The bill approved, 23-11, by the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday would seek to end ra cial discrimination in voting, education, employment and pri vate business offering the ne cessities of life to the public. It tlso would give broad new powers to the government to combat discrimination. Kennedy, who took a personal hand in the delicate negotiations which produced tlie bipartisan hill, said in a statement that the measure "will provide the basis for men of good will in every city in our land to work together to resolve their racial lrol)lcms within a framework of law and justice." However, It was unlikely that the President expected the bill the most sweeping civil rights proposal of the century to whistle through the House even with leadership backing. has administration support, and a rival bill authored by Rep. James H. Morrison. D-La. Tire Udall-Broyhill bill origi nally proposed a pay hike from $22,500 to $33,0(10 for member of Congress, but the committee imposed a $10,000 ceiling on this Increase. Other congressional news: Foreign Aid: Sen. Allen J. El lender, D-La , said today the Senate should cut its $41 bil lion foreign aid bill by at least $460 million and tighten It up In other ways. The long-delayed bill to authorize another year of economic and military aid would fall $300 million short of Spy ..Chjairge grades deferred until winter term. Lieuallen presented three top priority capital improvement projects among those now fro zen. They are, in order, a science building for Portland State; funds for Campbell Hall at Oregon College of Education, and money for access walks to the new building at Oregon Technical Institute in Klamath Falls. Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Harvost outlook only fair to ' nait tlvo days with recurring showery periods. Temperaruras naar season work outside company plant. . The1 FBI said the meeting Tuesday night was Hie last in a series going back to last April 21, all of which were ob served by FBI agents. Butenko, a bespectacled elec trical engineer complained at his arraignment before U.S. Commissioner Theodore Kis- caras in Rutiierford about pho tographers snapping his picture. "Tliey took enough, haven't they?" he said to federal of ficials. "If they keep on taking pictures they're going to ruin my life. But Ivanov, showing an in itialed tattoo on his left hand, posed willingly. IGOR A. IVANOV Chauffeur Arrested When FBI men seized the Kussian's car after his rendez vous with the engineer had end ed, they found Butenko's brief case in tlie rear seat They also found a camera equipped to operate from the car's cigar ette lighter. Detained Briefly Yuri A. Romashin, 30, the third secretary of the Soviet U.N. mission, and Gleb A. Pavlov, 39, an attache at the mission, were detained briefly after tliey joined the engineer and tlie chauffeur at the rail- ' road station. Romashin had failed in his role as a lookout. Romashin, Pavlov and an other Russian are being ordered to leave th country at once, Hie State Department an nounced. The FBI told of four previous meetings, all in Bergen County suburbs. During each, it said, Butenko's brief case passed from his car to the Russian'. The first occurred on April 21 in Butenko's car in the parking lot of a food store in Closter, the second on May 26, a Sun day, in a Closter restaurant, the third the following day at a restaurant in Fort Lee, just across tlie George Washington Bridge from Manhattan, and the fourth on Sept. 24 behind a hamburger stand in Paramus. Butenko, a bachelor,, was graduated in 1949 with honors from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., where he was born. He Uvea In Orange, N.J., with his Russian - born fa ttier, William, a naturalized citizen. His mother, also born in Russia, died in 1957. the $4 5 billion asked by Presi dent Kennedy, even if it sur vives Senate cuts. But the $4.2 billion total approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee still was about $700 mil lion more than the House voted. Carrier! Outgoing Secretary Fred Korth meets behind closed doors with tlie Senate House Atomic Energy Committee and is expected to make a fervent appeal for en all-nuclear fleet. Korth was prepared to tell the committee that Defense Secre tary Robert S. McNamara went against scientific advice In re jecting construction of (mother nuclear-powered aupercarrler. tlie r - -A)
